Civilianisation
Civilianisation is designed to ensure that a police service makes the best use of the officers available. The aim is to release officers from roles that could be performed equally effectively by police support staff. Additionally, civilianisation initiatives bring a number of new support staff roles and consequently new career development opportunities.
Within the current Human Resources Planning Strategy; PSNI committed to developing a corporate programme for civilianisation. Achievement of this strand of the strategy will not only ensure that more police officers are taken away from administrative jobs to be redeployed to front-line duties, but also that the balance in terms of religious composition will be redressed where vacancies for six or more civilian posts will have the principles of 50:50 recruitment applied.
The PSNI currently employ approximately 3,000 civilian support staff across Northern Ireland. Civilian support staff are a key element in shaping the future of the Service.
Since September 2002, civilian recruitment for PSNI is managed and delivered by Grafton Recruitment who is tasked with recruiting and selecting all full-time and part-time civilian support positions, in a number of fields.