NSW Police launch recruitment programs | Port Macquarie, September 18, 2024 - video Dailymotion

Police launch the You Should Be a Cop In Your Hometown and You Should Be a Cop Youth Program at Charles Sturt University in Port Macquarie.

Transcript

00:00It's an opportunity that we see from our organisation to showcase what we do in terms of our capability,

00:19our resources, our business, to a group of young adults, and we've made reference to

00:24the term young adults because they're Year 10 to Year 12, and an opportunity where they're

00:28considering and pondering potentially being police, which we think is a great, great choice,

00:33a great opportunity. So we've decided to come together with the Youth Command and Police

00:37Recruitment to showcase what we do, our day-to-day business, and say, you should be a cop. There's

00:45so much capability within our organisation, there's over 200 career pathways that we have,

00:50and this is just a limited amount, but again showing tactically, strategically what we

00:55do, and we have the dog squad, we have our technical police, we have our prosecutors.

00:59Recruitment right across the board is a challenge for Australasian police organisations at the moment,

01:12we recognise that, you know, we've got some vacancies right across the state, so on the

01:16back of Mr Woods, you should be a cop program, we're also in the north region, this is our

01:21launch of Be A Cop In Your Hometown, and people say, what is all that about? Well,

01:25that really is the opportunity for people to return to their hometown. Of course,

01:30there are conditions concerning that, but it is about conducting all those checks and providing

01:36some certainty, so when you go to the academy for your 16 weeks, we can say with some certainty,

01:41you can come back to your hometown.