JCrakers
14-02-2014, 01:16 PM
Sorry...Long , but I am so fuming right now!!!!!!!!
DS has to do work experience this year and so we had to write to a few businesses. He wants to join the police so we wrote to the local police station which is only small. He got a reply in January it said ' I am very pleased to be able to offer you a one week placement commencing on (date inserted)'
Then underneath it went on to say 'Please note that this placement is provisional at this time and is subject to a satisfactory security vetting check'
So we all read it as 'you have a place but you will need a clean background check, If it comes back ok then the place is yours' .....or are we all a bit stupid?
So, we were all so pleased, we've told family and friends and he's was looking forward to it. The letter went on to say that once your check is complete I will make contact with your school and send you further correspondence with your parents. I will create an itinery for you to work to....etc...etc. this will include patrolling with officers and also response officers.
DH rang the PC and made a time to go to the station with DS's passport and filled in form (3.45pm) but when they got there he had gone home, the station closes at 3.30pm...So after hanging around for a while in the pouring rain he spotted 2 PC's coming out of the back so he explained what he was doing and they photocopied his passport and took the forms to pass on.
Fast forward 3 weeks and yesterday he received another letter telling him he hadn't got a place. So we were confused and obviously DS feels let down. :(
DH rang the PC who stated that the letter said it was provisional and was very rude to DH. DH said although it did say provisional, the way it was worded wasn't good.
I rang the school and complained and was told that 6 other students had also been let down in this way, she apologised and said they had tried to get extra weeks and even half term but the Police had said no, so they are tring to get something else for hime.
DH has rang the PC back and asked if he met any of the boys, as he thought maybe he'd managed to interview the others and DS missed his as the PC had gone home. He said no one had been interviewed and basically snapped at DH that he'd chosen 4 boys out of 10 and that was that. He wasn't friendly, polite and didn't apologise for the confusion but just snapped at him and basically made DH feel quite intimidated.
DH was fuming and I cant believe that someone who is supposed to be part of the community can act like this towards a parent of a student. DH wasn't a criminal he was just trying to ring up and ask a few questions and give him some advice about how to write the letter so other students don't feel let down this way. DH told him the DS felt crushed and the PC couldn't give a toss.
SO, I don't want DS joining the police if this is the way they talk to people.....I'm feeling pretty ****** off right now.
Even if we did mis-interpret the letter just a simple sorry would have been nice from him. Plus, my son is 15yrs old.....you don't send a letter stating that at the top. :mad: and you don't send a letter to a 15yr old telling him what he's going to be doing, like going out on beat and then let him down like that :mad:
DS has to do work experience this year and so we had to write to a few businesses. He wants to join the police so we wrote to the local police station which is only small. He got a reply in January it said ' I am very pleased to be able to offer you a one week placement commencing on (date inserted)'
Then underneath it went on to say 'Please note that this placement is provisional at this time and is subject to a satisfactory security vetting check'
So we all read it as 'you have a place but you will need a clean background check, If it comes back ok then the place is yours' .....or are we all a bit stupid?
So, we were all so pleased, we've told family and friends and he's was looking forward to it. The letter went on to say that once your check is complete I will make contact with your school and send you further correspondence with your parents. I will create an itinery for you to work to....etc...etc. this will include patrolling with officers and also response officers.
DH rang the PC and made a time to go to the station with DS's passport and filled in form (3.45pm) but when they got there he had gone home, the station closes at 3.30pm...So after hanging around for a while in the pouring rain he spotted 2 PC's coming out of the back so he explained what he was doing and they photocopied his passport and took the forms to pass on.
Fast forward 3 weeks and yesterday he received another letter telling him he hadn't got a place. So we were confused and obviously DS feels let down. :(
DH rang the PC who stated that the letter said it was provisional and was very rude to DH. DH said although it did say provisional, the way it was worded wasn't good.
I rang the school and complained and was told that 6 other students had also been let down in this way, she apologised and said they had tried to get extra weeks and even half term but the Police had said no, so they are tring to get something else for hime.
DH has rang the PC back and asked if he met any of the boys, as he thought maybe he'd managed to interview the others and DS missed his as the PC had gone home. He said no one had been interviewed and basically snapped at DH that he'd chosen 4 boys out of 10 and that was that. He wasn't friendly, polite and didn't apologise for the confusion but just snapped at him and basically made DH feel quite intimidated.
DH was fuming and I cant believe that someone who is supposed to be part of the community can act like this towards a parent of a student. DH wasn't a criminal he was just trying to ring up and ask a few questions and give him some advice about how to write the letter so other students don't feel let down this way. DH told him the DS felt crushed and the PC couldn't give a toss.
SO, I don't want DS joining the police if this is the way they talk to people.....I'm feeling pretty ****** off right now.
Even if we did mis-interpret the letter just a simple sorry would have been nice from him. Plus, my son is 15yrs old.....you don't send a letter stating that at the top. :mad: and you don't send a letter to a 15yr old telling him what he's going to be doing, like going out on beat and then let him down like that :mad: