After attending the first set of examination papers and successfully passing the fitness assessment (bleep test) you are invited to the first interview which they inform you is an hour long. The interview is much shorter than this and you'll be asked to go over any changes to your vetting form, including any new personal circumstances. I was expecting to be asked at least about 30 questions and instead was asked approximately only five or six which put me in a position of not including all key competencies and answers that I spent time preparing for. My advice to anyone else about to go through the process would be to be prepared for this short amount of questioning, using the STAR (situation, task, action, result) system of answering questions even when caught off guard. Other than the National Priorities of Policing another thing I recall being asked about was my knowledge of the key components of equality and diversity. I was given same day feedback on whether I'd made it to the next stage (via email). I personally was not and was invited to reapply in six months and offered telephone feedback on my interview performance a week later.

Filled out at an application Fitness bleep test had to get to level 6 or 7 and do a general run Competency based interview Got asked 7/8 questions on general competency Wanted to use examples from application but got told to use different ones which was strange