Thread: New FAL waiting time

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

Some vettors are rostered on to work weekends. I haven't heard of any that are limited to not working after 5 pm. Although, winter time is hard on vettors that work rural areas in the evening. Missing letterbox numbers and rainy nights trying to find the right address can't be much fun.

If you want your licence renewed then you're going to have to be prepared to make the time available. It's only once in 10 years. Applicants that expect everything to work in their favour is being unrealistic and unreasonable.

Still, I stand by the statement I made earlier - couple of days notice when you aren't in the same island isn't the most user friendly for planning purposes. Nice that they are trying to get things through I guess, but just as they have lives that are busy and it can be hard juggling things at short notice... Especially when it's months or years after the application when you get the initial contact. If you made application, got phone call in a couple of days while the work and life things are fresh in your head it would be a lot easier. I'm well not sure what you mean by applicants expecting everything to work in their favour is unrealistic and unreasonable - any other renewal in the country appears to be processed in a week or less including CoC's, technical registrations, maritime and aviation once medicals and details are sorted, so I'm left wondering how Police can get it so badly stuffed up. It would seem to be a case of unrealistic expectations combined with chronic underinvestment in resourcing and equipping has just bitten one too many times and the end result is a completely nonfunctional system.