On Beat
| Published date | 01 October 1968 |
| Date | 01 October 1968 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6804101003 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
ON
BEAT
A monthl y feature
of
items
of
police interest, interviews with police
personalities, and matters
of
a lighter nature coming within the purview
of
the Police Service .
The results achieved by the most recent group of Bramshill scholars to
leave the universities
-three
firsts, four upper seconds and one lower
second-are
something of which the Police Service must be proud. But
the achievement
of
these results must have brought problems to the in-
dividuals concerned. Inspector Carl Manklow
of
the
Sussex constabulary, amarried
man of 30, with four children
aged nine to 2i, is currently serv-
ing as a patrol inspector at Bognor
Regis. A little over four years ago
he was a constable at Brighton.
In the interim period he has spent
a year at Bramshill on the Special
Course, and three years as an
undergraduate at the London
School of Economics, graduating
with a first class honours degree.
Inspector Manklow is prob-
ably a fairly typical example
of
the " late developer". Although
he achieved a place at Hove
Grammar School and there ob-
tained five 0levels, he left school
at 16 to take a somewhat dead-
end job in an accountant's office. At 18 he was called to do his National
Service with the R.A.F., rising to the perhaps not very dizzy rank of
S.A.C. But it was his servicewith the R.A .F. that not only introduced him
to his wife whom he met while stationed in Scotland, but opened his eyes
to the wider world that exists outside an office in a south coast seaside
resort.
By 1964, when he was chosen for a place on the Special Course, In-
spector Manklow had been a constable at Brighton for fiveyears and had
fathered three children.
For
the last three years his life has been the anti-
thesis of
that
of a policeman; the L.S.E. itself and his special subject,
sociology,attractto them the more radical amongstboth the students and the
teachers. But the transition from policeman to student does not appear to
have raised problems. The mature student is likely to be both more eager
to take advantage of the opportunities offered by a university and more
confident of his ability to do so than the student straight from school.
"I found the atmosphere very friendly and certainly the other students
did not get around to branding us as fascists" Inspector Manklow said.
"And
I found that the demonstrators 1 met could always see the police
point
of
view."
October
1968 461
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