Physical Competency Test News Today

The standard needs to change if police want to recruit and keep staff, an ex officer says.

A former police officer says the compulsory fitness test is too hard and needs to change if police want to recruit and retain more frontline staff....

Jarrod Gilbert on the future of policing

Is the fitness test for gardaí too demanding? So asks Trevor Laffan   

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan is to get a pedalling protection officer at times when he is cycling around Dublin on ministerial duties.

Fianna Fáil Justice spokesman Jim O’Callaghan has suggested that the standards were too onerous for candidates.

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