'No excuse' | Candidate calls 999 to 'check on job application' - & other bizarre hiring tales

A would-be police officer destroyed his chances of a job after ringing 999 to find out how his application was getting along.

The Daily Mail reported that the prospective North Wales Police candidate lost out on the £21,000-a-year job after his emergency call was reported to senior officers.

The Constabulary’s Chief Inspector, Mark Williams, was reported by the Mail as saying: “He clearly was not cut out for the job.

“There was absolutely no excuse for a prospective police officer to call the emergency number to check on his job application.”