A protest outside the Presidential Palace was held yesterday by candidates in the 2021 police examinations, who had passed the psychometric tests and after the cancellation of the procedure were re-tested and rejected.
These are 46 people, who in a resolution delivered yesterday addressed to the President of the Republic, note that among those affected are holders of degrees and postgraduates, who due to age can not take part in any other recruitment process in the Police.
Affected police officers are annoyed that everyone admits to being treated unequally, but do nothing to resolve the issue.
They also reject the government's suggestion to amend the regulations so that Candidates who pass the written examinations in the written examinations will be registered for a period of 2 years. completely irrelevant to the whole issue.
Abolish
With the resolution they adopted yesterday, they suggest the abolition of psychometric tests of cognitive abilities for two reasons:
- It has been found in practice that psychometric tests of cognitive abilities are completely unreliable, as it is not logical for the 46 affected to pass the first test, even occupying the first places and in the second test, in the same tests, to be cut, “which means that “Something goes wrong with these psychometric exams.” the rest of the examinees, as well as the number of candidates. {Bullet}
The 46 are represented by the lawyer George Karapatakis, who has addressed a letter & # 8211; proposal to the Chief of Police.
Leg work
The issue arose when the court had canceled the recruitment process of 100 police officers, because the psychometric examinations had been assigned to a private company. At that time, a second recruitment process was underway. In order to comply with the court decision, the Chief of Police canceled the second procedure and the candidates who had passed the psychometric tests were called to be re-examined, both in a personality test and in a test of cognitive skills. The candidates of the first procedure were called only for a personality test and, after passing it and passing a drug test, they were appointed to the Police. The candidates in the second procedure took a double test and about 80 of them, while they had succeeded, were rejected in the re-examination.
Meanwhile, the Police announced a new procedure to fill 681 vacancies. Even if some of the complainants wanted it, they could not claim it due to age limit.
