- QPS appoints Regional Recruitment Officers (RROs) to further enhance its historic recruitment campaign
- RROs will be based in five locations across Queensland
- RROs will target recruitment activities in diverse communities and more broadly across Queensland.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has launched a new initiative to further enhance its innovative and agile officer recruitment campaign.
The QPS is leading the nation in terms of recruitment, in what is for all jurisdictions a challenging labour market.
To further support the QPS' many other recruitment initiatives, Regional Recruitment Officers have now been appointed and will be based in five locations across Queensland, but will deploy across regional areas in support of specific recruitmemnt activities.
The officers will be based in Townsville, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Each of these RROs is provided with a dedicated high visibility vehicle to assist them to travel to towns across the State to develop localised recruiting strategies.
A key part of this initiative is for the RROs to attract and recruit applicants that reflect the diversity of the community the QPS serves.
The QPS wants to recruit applicants from regional, remote and rural locations who want to return to their communities when they become a police officer.
In addition, the Queensland Police Service has a First Nations Recruitment Officer who works closely with First Nations communities and organisations and secondary and tertiary institutions to encourage applications from potential First Nations police recruits.
The Queensland Police Service's biggest ever recruitment campaign is delivering significant results.
There are currently nearly 600 recruits undergoing training in Queensland's police academies.
Police state that there are almost 1,600 applicants in the recruit pipeline.
That includes more than 300 international applicants and more than 200 interstate and New Zealand police applicants.
Applicants with policing experience account for more than 30 percent of the total pipeline.
That's significant because depending on their level of experience, and its recency, those applicants can be fast-tracked through training and can complete their courses in roughly half the time it takes a raw recruit.
And there is no doubt the unprecedented recruitment campaign is getting noticed.
Anyone watching the many replays of Australia's historic One Day International World Cup cricket victory last week couldn't have failed to see the 'Try It On' TV campaign inviting young people to consider a career in policing.
And it's just not cricket!
Police recruitment is going to the movies.
Movie goers will see the police recruitment campaign on the big screen when they go to see the new Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom and The Marvels.
If you, or someone you know, is considering becoming a police officer, please visit the QPS Recruiting website.
Quotes attributable to Police Minister Mark Ryan:
"I commend the Queensland Police Service for their agile and innovative approach to recruitment.
"Queensland is leading the nation when it comes to the recruitment of police officers and that is a direct result of the great work police are doing in what is a challenging labour market across the nation, and indeed the world.
"These newly appointed Regional Recruitment Officers will provide enhanced capability to ensure the Queensland Police Service reflects the diversity of the Queensland community."
