Do I need to apply for a new competency?

**High Power** · 10-01-2022, 16:36

Originally Posted by Adoons

A competency from 2011 will not be valid anymore. No matter what technicalities can be discussed, CFR will not grant you a license with it.

Not true, and it isn't a technicality. I also have licences to prove this.

Peter

**Wild coast** · 10-01-2022, 17:11

A thread with a definite answer… OP should go play lotto!

**BBCT** · 10-01-2022, 22:01

I would just apply to renew the Competency Certificate. In general I don't think SAPS will issue a licence against a competency 10 years old and for a cost of R77 and filling in a form it's not worth the heartache to try and argue about it or take a chance.

It occurs to me that we should make sure you have the terminology correct here. Confirm you are talking about an SAPS-issued Competency Certificate, not the Proficiency Certificate issued by your training provider? If you are talking about the Proficiency Certificate, the answer is different...........

**oafpatroll** · 11-01-2022, 08:43

Originally Posted by BBCT

I would just apply to renew the Competency Certificate. In general I don't think SAPS will issue a licence against a competency 10 years old and for a cost of R77 and filling in a form it's not worth the heartache to try and argue about it or take a chance.

That's my approach, rightly or wrongly. Waiting for a license and having it bounced for the saving of a form and 77 randelas is just not worth the bother for me.

**Wild coast** · 11-01-2022, 13:10

But it will also delay any firearm app as you can no longer submit competency and 271 together.

Although both my renewals were submitted together? I tell you the amount of effort I put into trying to figure this shit out I could have had a law degree by now!!!!

**oafpatroll** · 11-01-2022, 13:13

Originally Posted by Wild coast

But it will also delay any firearm app as you can no longer submit competency and 271 together.

Although both my renewals were submitted together? I tell you the amount of effort I put into trying to figure this shit out I could have had a law degree by now!!!!

I hear you, I was mistakenly thinking about renewal of a still valid, however the fuck you are supposed to determine that, competence.

**Dawie_102** · 11-01-2022, 14:08

Just maybe we need to insist SAPS write competency test for their work, imagine that. hehe

**BBCT** · 11-01-2022, 20:57

Originally Posted by Wild coast

But it will also delay any firearm app as you can no longer submit competency and 271 together.

You can't submit a 271 & a competency together but you can submit a 271 and competency RENEWAL together. At the same time I will concede that one could always have a prolem convincing your individual DFO about this...