I noticed this in Berlin (regional) news today....the cops there are in a big hiring expedition. The first round came and went.....and they didn't recruit enough folks. Curious episode.
What RBB says is that ONLY 10-percent of those who applied....passed all of the requirements...meaning 90-percent failed.
The requirements? You have to be a German or a EU-member state citizen (no visa-folks in this episode). Pass the background test....meaning you don't have an arrest record. You need a Class-B license to drive. You must be able to swim 200 meter. No tattoos visible with summer shirts on (that's a problem for a lot of young Germans). A clean medical exam. And you must be 160 cm tall for a gal and 165 for a guy.
There is a discussion going on that they might relax the tattoo situation a bit, and that the height deal might go down a notch.
Why the problems? Unemployment is down in the four-percent range, and frankly....being a German cop isn't exactly on the top ten jobs list of most German kids. If you go and look at middle-class young men and women...probably over fifty percent have a couple of tattoos.
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