Among Our Contributors
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6403700719 |
| Date | 01 July 1964 |
| Published date | 01 July 1964 |
| Subject Matter | Among Our Contributors |
AMONG OIJR tjONTRIBUTORS
Dr. Edgar Ansteyhas immense experience of the subject of his article. In 1945
he was founder-head of the Civil Service Commission Research Unit, with which
he remained until 1951. He then served in the Home Officefor some seven years
and went to the Ministry of Defence in 1958, where he was promoted senior
principal psychologist. He returned to the Civil Service Commission in March
this year.
Among Dr. Anstey's publications are Interviewing for the Selection
of
Staff
(with Dr. E. O. Mercer), published in 1956,
Staff
Reporting and
Staff
Development
(1961) and Committees, How They Work and How to Work Them (1962). This
is Dr. Anstey's first contribution to
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL.
Mr. O. V. Thomas isknown to many thousands of police officers, many of whom
are now in high rank in the Metropolitan Police and elsewhere. His influence on
police driving has been immense and goes back to the days when the late Lord
Trenchard formed the Motor Driving School at Hendon. He was one of the
original six constables (selected after being tested by Sir Malcolm Campbell)
who became instructors at the school. The late Lord Cottenham personally
trained Mr. Thomas when the advanced wingwas set up to train Class I and Class
2 drivers. Mr. Thomas retired in 1958, after 30 years' service, and was appointed
senior civilian instructor at the school. He trains all instructors, in both theory and
practice, .carries out all practical maintenance examinations on the standard
wing, does investigation of vehicles with the advanced wing and also tests drivers
on intermediate and advanced courses as required.
That
is just the kind of retire-
ment which Mr. Thomas's ex-students would expect of him.
Mr. Thomas is a contributor of long standing to
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL:
many
of our readers will remember
his"
Accident Prevention" (1943), .. Post War
Traffic" (1945)
and"
The Metropolitan Police Motor Driving
School"
(1959).
Mr. T. Lockley, O.D.E., joined the Staffordshire constabulary in 1924, and
after wide experience in all branches reached the rank of detective chief superin-
tendent in 1951. He had been in charge of the criminal investigation department
of his force since 1945. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for Dis-
tinguished Servicein 1953. In 1955 Mr. Lockley was selected to take charge of the
United Kingdom Police Unit in Cyprus. Very shorty after his arrival there he
assumed the direction of the C.I.D., being responsible for the investigation of all
terrorist crimes. During this service in Cyprus he held the rank
of
assistant
chief constable.
Already widely known in the service, through his chairmanship of the
No.4
District Detective Conference and the Midlands District Conference of Special
Branch Officers and also through his striking lectures to C.I.D. courses, Mr.
Lockley gained further hosts of friends and admirers when he was appointed
deputy commandant of the Police College, where he served from 1958 to 1963,
taking a salient and invaluable part in the massive reorganization of those years.
His cheerful and kindly nature, allied to his great professional skill and experience,
made him very popular with the thousands of students who attended the College
in his day.
In 1963, Mr. Lockley was appointed assistant chief constable of his parent
force and is now particularly concerned with its operational duties.
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