Recruitment Update - 04/08/2026

The Merit Lists for the 2025 and 2021 Student Officer Recruitment Campaigns are being managed by the PSNI External Recruitment Team. 

If you have been included on a Merit List for either the 2025 or 2021 Campaigns, please check your inbox regularly in case you are contacted by the PSNI Team.

Please check here for the latest information on the progress of the 2025 and 2021 Campaigns.

Update 04/08/2026: January 2026 (2601) Student Officer Assessment Centre Results and Merit List

Following the Assessment Centre phase for the January 2026 Student Officer recruitment process, results were issued on 30/07/2026. Please check your email to find details of the outcome of your Assessment Centre.

For those who have been successful - congratulations - your details have now been transferred to the PSNI by Deloitte and, in due course, the PSNI will be in touch about the PSNI Managed Stages of the recruitment process. As a reminder to all active candidates, please check back here on Recruitment News (Jan 2026 tab) in case of any urgent updates.

For those not successful on this occasion, thank you very much for your participation. You effort throughout the Deloitte Managed Stages of recruitment is appreciated. Please consider applying again when we next recruit for Student Officer roles. We look forward to your future application.

Please check here for the latest information on the progress of the 2026 Campaign. (Chart will be published soon). 

Update 04/08/2026: Future Recruitment 

The PSNI is not currently taking applications for the role of Student Officer. However, it is expected that the next recruitment process will be advertised relatively soon.  

Currently, we have no firm details on when exactly future recruitment will be open to fresh applications, but it is expected that recruitment will happen in mid-Autumn 2026 (likely launching around mid-October). 

We encourage you to check back here regularly for updates. Also, please keep a regular check on PSNI social media for news on recruitment.

If you would like to join our "future recruitment mailing list", to be notified of the opening of our next Student Officer recruitment campaign, please email us from your preferred email address and clearly indicate that you would like to opt-in to our future recruitment mailing list. The mailing list we intend to hold is in relation to the next upcoming Student Officer PSNI recruitment campaign only. (In relation to subsequent future campaigns or other PSNI recruitment, separate mailing list options may be offered, and you would be required to opt-in individually at the time they might be made available).

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