New Zealands aims to poach UK recruits
New Zealand Police have stepped up their campaign to target British recruits and are aiming for school leavers as well as serving officers.
New Zealand Police have stepped up their campaign to target British recruits and are aiming for school leavers as well as serving officers.
The New Zealand service has dispatched a team of head-hunters to fly to the UK and begin interviewing 2,000 potential recruits who have expressed an interest in emigrating to the other side of the world.
It is expected they will choose around 100 recruits from the batch.
In a change of policy, New Zealand is also aiming to recruit from school leavers as young as 18 rather than look for older recruits with more life experience as it has done in the past.
New Zealand Police human resources` Wayne Annan says the latest group of raw recruits at Porirua police college have an average age of 28. But from next year recruits could be as young as 18 years old.
“It provides an opportunity for us to employ the younger people and for them to start an early career in the police.”