Educational Opportunities for the Scottish Police
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6804100504 |
| Author | M. C. McIntosh |
| Date | 01 May 1968 |
| Published date | 01 May 1968 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
INSPECTOR
M.
C.
MciNTOSH
Stirling and Clackmannan Police
Have our colleagues north of the Border stolen a march on the
rest of us?
EDUfJATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR
TIlE
SfJOTTISD POLIfJE
Now that the powers that be south of the border have abolished
the education examinations for promotion and appear to have
thrown open the doors of the universities to serving members one
wonders what lies between the elementary standard of entrance to
the service and the high entry qualification necessary to university?
While we in Scotland continue to have education examinations
for promotion we have also gone a long way to providing
education facilities for the police and perhaps readers will be
interested to learn of the scheme.
It
is necessary to begin in 1961, when the Secretary of State
for Scotland set up what is now known as the Scottish Council for
Commercial, Administrative and Professional Education
(S.C.C.A.P.E.) with the object of keeping under review the
development of commercial education in Scotland. to devise
courses, to conduct examinations. and to award appropriate cer-
tificates. At the outset a major task confronting the Council
was to try to cut down on the multiplicity of courses and qualifi-
cations in operation in relation to the various professions. This
they have succeeded in doing with the Scottish National Certifi-
cate in business studies. The S.N.C. is now recognized by most
professional bodies for partial or complete exemption from their
intermediate or part I final examinations and from their pre-
liminary examinations.
On January 21, 1965. the chief constable of Stirling and Clack-
mannan presented apaper to the Chief Constables' (Scotland)
Association, calling attention to the lack of educational facilities
available for Scottish policemen. The paper resulted in the
setting up of a small working party to examine the subject and
to consider the assistance which might be rendered in this can-
nexion by education authorities. universities and techn.ical and
commercial colleges. The working party were assisted in their
deliberations by H.M. Chief Inspector of Constabulary. repre-
sentatives of the Police Division of the Scottish Home and Health
Department, a member of the Scottish Education Department, and
amember of H.M. Inspectorate of Schools. A member of the
Superintendents' Association and the secretary of the Scottish
Police Federation were also called in so that all levels of the
service would be acquainted with the work being done in this field.
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