Recruitment
Members view PSNI police officer recruitment as one of the key successes within the PSNI change management programme and its progress is monitored by the Human Resources Committee.
To date a total of twelve recruitment campaigns have been run by the independently appointed recruitment agents – the Consensia Partnership. To date over 60,000 applications have been received; over 20,000 from females, almost 20,000 from Catholics and over 1,000 from ethnic minority applicants. Recruitment to the PSNI continues to be conducted under the principles of 50:50 so as to ensure a police service that is representative of the community it serves.
The current PSNI composition figures show the percentage of Roman Catholic regular officers at 21%, an increase of 12% since 2001.