OVER 12,000 CANDIDATES REJECTED FOR POLICE RECRUITMENT TRAINING

The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) has rejected more than 10,000 police recruitment applications to proceed into police recruitment training.

While the almost completing recruitment drive, the RPNGC recruitment team is has rejected 12,308 applications out of 18,460 through the new portal system dues to missing required documents, being overage and low academic grades in English and Mathematics.

Most of the candidates were eliminated due to no original documents produced during the screening and validation stage, no NID cards, failing of the tests and a good number of candidates didn’t show up at all.

The shortlisted have been separated into two batches consisting of candidates from the Southern and Momase Region in batch-1 while batch-2 will occupy Highlands and New Guinea Islands Regions.

4014 candidates in the first batch have been shortlisted to proceed to the required stages of the recruitment training. RPNGC recruitment team has carried out a fair selection system throughout the country to ensure an equal and fair selection of qualified and genuine candidates irrespective to class or gender.

Candidates will be qualified for the police training once they pass all the six required stages of the recruitment process.

The stages include Screening and Validation, Testing, Interview, Medical Check, Physical Fitness and Reference Check.

The first batch of 4014 applications represent candidates from, NCD, Central, Gulf, Milne Bay Oro, Western, Sandaun, East Sepik, Madang and Morobe Province.

After thorough screening through the six official stages, only 236 out of 4014 have been shortlisted from that first batch.

The RPNGC Recruitment team started on the recruitment process with NCD, Central and Gulf at the Bomana Police Collage and later divided into two teams to run the process in the provinces of Southern and Momase Regions simultaneously.

The Recruitment Teams are on the final leg into the two last provinces which are Western and Morobe provinces.

The total for the first batch will be made known once the team complete shortlisting from these two provinces.

The first batch will be undergoing police training in June 2025.