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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1989
FSD TO UPGRADE RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN
THE FIRE SERVICES
DEPARTMENT
WILL
UPGRADE
ITS
CAMPAIGN
TO RECRUIT STATION OFFICERS, FIREMEN AND AMBULANCEMEN.
EXAMINATION GROUP OFFICERS FROM THE RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND
AGREEMENT WITH THE OF HEADQUARTERS COMMAND HAVE RECENTLY REACHED AN HOUSING DEPARTMENT UNDER WHICH FIVE MOBILE RECRUITING CENTRES WILL
IN SHOPPING AREAS IN BASIS SET UP ON A ESTATES THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.
ROTATION
PUBLIC
THESE RECRUITING CENTRES WILL OPEN EARLY NEXT MONTH.
FIRE
SERVICES, MR JOHN MARCH,
BE HOUSING
SAID TODAY
THE DIRECTOR OF (FRIDAY) THAT THE PRESENT SITUATION WITH REGARD TO OFFICER RECRUITMENT WAS BECOMING SERIOUS.
"DESPITE CONTINUOUS
RECRUITMENT
EFFORTS, ONLY
14 STATION THREE OF
OFFICERS WERE RECRUITED LAST YEAR TO FILL 68 VACANCIES, AND THEM SUBSEQUENTLY RESIGNED TO TAKE UP OTHER EMPLOYMENT," HE SAID.
TOTAL OF
THAT A
98
FOR VACANCIES
STATION MR MARCH ADDED OFFICERS WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BE FILLED IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR.
IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT
THERE WILL ALSO BE 376 VACANCIES FOR AND 332 FOR AMBULANCEMEN WHICH FIREMEN, SIX FOR AMBULANCE OFFICERS NEED TO BE FILLED IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR,
STEPPED-UP
DEPARTMENT
THAT THE HOPED MR MARCH ADDED HIS
RESULTS NOTWITHSTANDING THE RECRUITMENT DRIVE WOULD PRODUCE BETTER
STREAMS HAD SPECIAL FACT THAT
FIRE SERVICES OPERATIONAL THE
UNIQUE IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. RECRUITMENT REQUIREMENTS WHICH WERE
STANDARD
THE
"THE STRENUOUS NATURE OF THE JOB REQUIRES THE HIGHEST
EYESIGHT AMONGST ALL AND PHYSIQUE FITNESS, OF PHYSICAL DISCIPLINED SERVICES, HE SAID.
H
AS IT HAS
LABOUR
"THESE REQUIREMENTS POSE RESTRICTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT CANNOT FOR THIS REASON RECRUIT FEMALE FIRE OFFICERS, IT THEREFORE TO RECRUIT FROM
20 TO 30 PER CENT OF THE ABOUT
AVAILABLE
FORCE."
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