Jail service lowers recruitment health requirements

Joanna Yeung

Candidates for correctional officers and assistant officers will take a simplified bodily health take a look at for recruitment ranging from September 16, the Correctional Providers Division introduced, with the intention to entice extra candidates.

The brand new take a look at could have 4 gadgets as a substitute of the earlier 5, together with changing the sit-up and vertical bounce checks with an isometric power take a look at.

The shuttle run take a look at can even be modified from 10 single laps of 9 meters to 4 single laps of 10m. The bailey bridge and 800m run will probably be retained.

”On condition that the take a look at gadgets and requirements of the present bodily health take a look at have been in use for almost 20 years, the CSD has invited a sports activities medication professional to overview and formulate new bodily health take a look at requirements that higher meet the day by day work wants of correctional officers these days,” a CSD spokesman stated.

The CSD has additionally expedited its recruitment choice course of by finishing the bodily health take a look at, the Fundamental Regulation and Nationwide Safety Regulation Check, the group interview and the choice interview in at some point as a substitute of the earlier two.

Different disciplined companies have additionally adjusted their entry necessities, in an try to recruit extra candidates.

Final month, director of Hearth Providers Andy Yeung Yan-kin stated hearth station-officer candidates will probably be allowed to put on glasses to take the eyesight take a look at from later this yr.

The Hong Kong Police Power relaxed its entry necessities in Could, together with cancelling the precise peak and weight necessities of candidates and permitting candidates to put on glasses or contact lenses to finish the eyesight take a look at.

In the meantime, Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan tried to recruit skills from college students taking part within the authorities’s internship program, calling on them to use for civil service positions.

Yeung interacted with greater than 50 college college students who joined the executive service summer time internship program – which began in mid Could and can finish in September – at an intern gathering yesterday.

The interns shared their experiences and achievements throughout their internship interval and Yeung inspired them to equip themselves to serve the neighborhood.

Yeung instructed them that the federal government wanted skills who may assist promote the event of Hong Kong.

”We’re in nice want of expertise who love our nation and Hong Kong, who dare to be revolutionary, who’re prepared to rise to challenges and who’re devoted to serving the general public, with the intention to help the federal government in its endeavor to advertise the event of Hong Kong at full pace.

”I encourage all college students to proactively think about becoming a member of the civil service, particularly as administrative officers, and to make good use of your information, expertise and enthusiasm to contribute to society,” Yeung stated.

The Civil Service Bureau organizes the executive service internship program each winter and summer time for college kids learning in native, mainland and abroad universities.

This system usually lasts for two months, with individuals working full time. Interns are assigned to totally different bureaus and departments, finishing up duties which are just like the work finished by administrative officers.