[Cyprus Times] DISY proposes recruitment of police candidates who failed psychometric tests

DISY has submitted a proposal to the Chief of Police and the Minister of Justice for the recruitment of candidates who had passed the exams for the Cyprus Police and failed a few months later in a new procedure, the party's MP and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Legal Affairs, Nikos Tornaritis, announced on Wednesday. The initiative is supported by DIPA and ELAM. Tornaritis said that, with regard to police candidates who, while they had passed the psychometric tests a few months ago, failed a few months later, but at the same time have passed the exams, "we of the Democratic Rally have already submitted a proposal to the Chief of Police as well, and to the Minister of Justice, but I have also contacted the Assistant Attorney General, so that in the last recruitment process for police officers, all those who passed the exams should be hired."[/P]

He explained, that is, that psychometrics alone should not be taken into account in this process, "which created this particular problem."

Tornaritis said that they came up with this recommendation for reasons of public interest and citizen safety.

"It is well known that the police have 720 men and women less in service at this time, the procedures are very lengthy and, in any case, 92 police officers passed the exam," he said. Those very 92, he said, including all 46, "have the right, in our view,to proceed to the athletic examinations that the others who passed the examinations will undergo," he added.

For this very reason, he said, they call on the appointing authority, namely the Chief of Police, "in collaboration always of course with the State Legal Adviser, the Attorney General, to take immediate decisions that will serve first and foremost, the public interest."

The MP of DIPA, Alekos Tryfonidis, said that his party agrees and fully endorses all this effort that unfolded these two weeks, for reasons of public interest and reasons of security of the citizen because of the huge needs of the Police and the vacancies, around 700 positions.

"We support and have cooperated with Mr. Tornaritis, to implement this proposal, so that the total of 90 police officers are recruited, the specific number will be given by the Chief of Police, that is, those who passed the previous examination, not to take into account the psychometrics because legal procedures are involved, and go directly to the sports examinations," said Mr. In this way, he added, "we will extricate ourselves from this difficult issue, the police will be reinforced with about 90 more people and the 46 police officers who are protesting and demanding their justice" and other affected categories will be vindicated.

Their position, he said, is, "ecause we don't have the capacity to do psychometrics properly, they are to be abolished, because at the same time that we are giving the tool to the police to meet their needs, with these labyrinthine procedures, we are taking it back from them."

ELAM MP Sotiris Ioannou[/B] also said that they support the initiative of the Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of Mr. Tornaritis, "and I believe that we will go together as a Committee so that the problem of the 92 police candidates, who passed the psychometric tests in the past and were subsequently cut due to incorrect procedures followed, is solved immediately."

He said that there is a very great need in the Cyprus Police Force "and we should move forward with this initiative immediately" in the public interest.

Source: CNA

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