The Police & The Law
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X5402700302 |
| Published date | 01 July 1954 |
| Date | 01 July 1954 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
364
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
historic and beautiful centrepiece. Meanwhile, Bramshill House has
been adapted and furnished to accommodate
about
30 students
and
designated as a wing
of
the Police College. Since January last each
student attending one of the main courses at Ryton-on-Dunsmore
has, in succession, spent one, or in most cases, two weeks at Bramshill,
where the programme of studies, comprising mainly academic subjects,
has included research, lectures
and
tutorials. English literature is
the
main theme for these short periods
of
residence at Bramshill,
and
Mr.
Stead brings to the College a reputation already established in
the
world of literature
and
authorship. His "Vidocq" last year, a new
biography of the founder of the Surete,
apart
from being a
Book
Society's choice, has a flavour which has special interest for police
college students.
It
prompts the thought
that
equally skilful research
in the Public Record Office in London, like
that
which must have
been undertaken at the Surete by the
author
of
"Vidocq", would
result in the publication of biographies of those who initiated
and
developed the detective and other resources
of
the British police
system.
Those officers who, since January last, have enjoyed the unique
privilege of sharing residential studies in the beautiful mansion at
Bramshill,
and
of coming under the guidance
of
the resident lecturer,
are recognising the foresight of those who guide the work in embarking
on this phase. Knowledge
that
the management of the college is
shared not only by representatives of the Home Office
and
police
authorities,
but
by all the elements within the service is an adequate
ban on change which might extend the scope of the College beyond
the limits imposed by the White Paper.
The Police &The Law
POLICE
PENSIONS
REGULATIONS
1949 : No
GENERAL
RIGHT
OF
ApPEAL
TO
COURTS
IT has recently been decided by a Divisional Court of three judges
in the case
of
Ead v. Home Secretary (1954, 1
WL.R.
386)
that
the right
of
appeal to quarter sessions under section 5 (1)
of
the Police
Pensions Act 1948 from a refusal by the Police Authority to grant a
pension is
not
a general one
but
is limited by the Police Pensions
Regulations 1949 to an appeal on the ground
that
the medical referee
had inadequate or inaccurate evidence on which to come to his
conclusion.
The appellant, aconstable in the metropolitan police force, con-
tracted atubercular infection of the spine some time after having
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