I was sacked from the police. Will it affect my daughter's cadet application?

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I got sacked from a civilian role in the police 15ish years ago. Not gross misconduct or anything. I was just useless at the job. I didnt handle it well, they didnt handle it well.

My 15year old now wants to join the police cadets. I know they have to go through vetting etc if they are successful. Will my past affect her application?

The HR lady who dealt with me was truly awful and really did have a personal vendetta against me. I've heard that she is still there and I dont want to risk having to talk to her and bringing it all back or drawing attention to my daughter. I dont think I'm unreasonable to suspect she will remember me.

It depends on how much she does remember and holds this against your daughter. Whatever you do, don’t get in touch with her!

She was a nasty, nasty peice of work. I got a job a few weeks after I was sacked and she somehow found out (a friend of a friend type thing I think) and took it upon herself to email my new employer. There was no need for her to do that, as I say I got sacked because I was useless at the job. "Funnily" I'd worked at the force for 4years prior to that with glowing reviews.

My new boss showed me the email. It was an absolute character assination and just so vindictive and unnecessary.

I had an honest conversation with my new boss and luckily she believed in second chances (and at the time I was on a temp contract so they could sack me at anytime with no reason so there was no risk). I ended up being made perm and working there for 6 years with nothing further being said.

I really dont want to phone them to ask which is why I'm hoping someone on here knows.

She should have been sacked for that.
What an appalling abuse of power.
I hope you still have a copy of that email.
I would do nothing and hope that she doesn’t do anything -but I would also have some firepower in my arsenal in case she does. Be prepared -just in case.

I really doubt it. My son joined police cadets and I don't think they vetted him or me. They just had my emergency contact details.

Are they likely to ask her if any family member has ever worked for the police force?

You could have got HER sacked for that! Thats shocking!!

Many years ago I was sacked by a large household name company, I was just genuinely not suited to the job. Years later the firm I was working for got a contract with the first company which I ended up working on (couldn’t get out of it) and I spent 2 years terrified someone would find out and I’d be marched out the door, but they never did. I don’t think it will come up in your case, you were civilian staff so they probably don’t keep the records as long as officers.

My exh found out during the police application that his dad had been to juvenile prison!!! (His parents never told him and didn’t think to mention it when they knew they were doing checks 🙄) anyway, he’s now a police chief inspector 🙂

I really doubt it. It's the cadets, not a full blown position in the force. I think they'd be more likely to look for convictions etc than a parent's work history.

That’s terrible. What a piece of work she is! With this in mind, I just hope she doesn’t transfer all this to your daughter. She sounds like a relentless bully.

Data Retention policy, I would be suprised if they still have a record of it all.

In outlr force the vetting is carried out after the HR / recruitment part and someone can only be rejected for a valid reason, 'I don't like your mum' or 'your mum wasn't good at X role' are not valid reasons.

I would avoid telling your daughter who the problem HR person is/ what happened to you in case it makes her nervous around them or in case she is tempted to say something to another cadet about that person.

Years and years ago I applied for a job with Lincolnshire police in the control room. Someone in the recruitment process was friends with someone at my firm and told them I’d applied and I was sacked. God the ridiculousness of this situation now. I was only 19 and I wrote a complaint with the help of my dad and two uniformed officers came to visit me and I had to give them tea on a tray. Bloody hell can you imagine. Nowadays i
would “ have them “but back then I was intimidated. I don’t think anything happened to the bloke and I didn’t even get an interview for the job.

Anyway that’s by the by. I’m amazed they haven’t got a central HR and a separate vetting unit. I can’t even imagine them vetting cadets… it’s not a quick process. They won’t care about your job

Ok I feel reassured now. Thanks.

I was in survival mode at that point and just wanted her to leave me alone so I didnt do anything. I'm not sure much would have come of it even if I had complained tbh.

My daughter is in Cadets and no vetting was done. Just filled out a form. It’ll be fine.