Police Officer- English qualification

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

PasturesNew wrote: »

While posting a serious question, you were thinking of nudity?

The trouble is, English is important as typos can make the difference between being easily shown and proven innocent.... or hanging for a typo.

2 years after a typo, if questioned in court whether you meant you were thinking about nude people or not, could you answer with honesty that you weren't and that it was a typo? It can make a mockery of the trustworthiness of your evidence.

Language, commas, spelling .... can be twisted to mean entirely different things if they're written wrongly.

I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.
I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.

One of the above is probably illegal.

I have a degree in English. I make a lot of typos (and indeed a fair few grammatical errors, no doubt) on a site like this because my typing is bad and I write quickly and without a great deal of thought. Taking time to type correctly, or go back and correct it, is something you decide to do or not to do depending on how important you deem what you are doing to be. I don't consider this to be important at all so I don't care. Anything I do for work is entirely different.

JReacher1

Alter_ego wrote: »

So should the requirement be D? Then of course there's not much difference from an E.

I would argue the requirement should be whether or not you pass the assessment tests.

More seriously what would concern me is that I would guess the OP would have been asked his GCSE English grade on his initial application and to get this far in the process I assume he has said he got a C.

Whether he got a C or a D probably doesn’t matter too much but if he has lied and said he has got a C then that would show dishonesty and would probably lead to his application being unsuccessful.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

If the course requires a C or higher grade how did you get on the course with a D?

This is an important question. I think that if you have already told them you have a C grade- and I am not convinced you could have got this far without doing so - then going and resitting it now isn't going to help. Giving them incorrect information in the first place is going to be your problem.

[Deleted User]

Surely a lack of the correct qualification would exclude you from the very start? I really hope you haven't lied on your application form. That would be an instant disqualification.

Police vetting is also very thorough so don't expect to pull the wool over their eyes.

Arsenal2019

Was this course at your local college or online?
I hope you don't mind me asking

bigisi

Richardroberts1 wrote: »

Was this course at your local college or online?
I hope you don't mind me asking

It's useful to quote whoever you are replying to otherwise it's difficult to see what the point of your post is.

Smodlet

JReacher1 wrote: »

Technically because you have spelt Jack with a capital J that makes it a noun not a verb. Therefore the second sentence is not illegal it is instead nonsensical

Then let us consider this classic example:

Have you paid the rent, boy?

Have you paid the rent boy?

The second activity is, as far as I am aware, somewhat frowned upon.

JReacher1

Smodlet wrote: »

Then let us consider this classic example:

Have you paid the rent, boy?

Have you paid the rent boy?

The second activity is, as far as I am aware, somewhat frowned upon.

Not sure why the second one is frowned upon.

You should always pay your debts

Smodlet

I think the point has been well made by several posters, JReacher. A single comma can completely transform the meaning of a sentence.

As far as I am aware, police officers still refer to their hand written notebooks when giving evidence in court. Failure to communicate effectively could lead to a miscarriage of justice. Even if rectified the very next day, how do give someone back time spent in a cell when they are innocent?

JReacher1

Smodlet wrote: »

I think the point has been well made by several posters, JReacher. A single comma can completely transform the meaning of a sentence.

As far as I am aware, police officers still refer to their hand written notebooks when giving evidence in court. Failure to communicate effectively could lead to a miscarriage of justice. Even if rectified the very next day, how do give someone back time spent in a cell when they are innocent?

Yes but the point has also been made comparing how someone posts on an Internet forum is probably not indicative of how they would write professionally. It is unfair therefore to say the OP is not qualified to be a police officer based on these posts.