Police Post-Graduate Training—Some Suggestions
| Date | 01 April 1946 |
| Published date | 01 April 1946 |
| Author | R. Patchett |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4601900211 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
140
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
Sometimes the same set of facts answer both questions,
but
when
considering a case of larceny, whether it be felony or not, by the
application of these two questions the correct answer can most easily
be found, and when found can most clearly be expressed, e.g.,
"There
appears, therefore, to have been no intention to defraud," or "
There
is a clear indication
that
A. B. intended to deprive the owner per-
manently of his property."
It
is not intended in this note to consider the circumstances which
may amount either to fraudulent intent or to the intent permanently
to deprive the
owner;
much could be written about
each-for
example
the claim of right in the first case, and abandonment or destruction
in the second case.
The
intention is to discourage the haphazard
use of the phrase ' felonious intent ' and to suggest the use of more
appropriate phrases in all cases other than those in which the statute
creating the offence demands, in so many words, an intent to commit
a felony. .
Before leaving the subject, however, reference will, once more,
be made to the offence of false pretences. Why does 'felonious
intent'
sometimes creep in here, and what is the special necessary
mental element required to make the
'obtaining'
amisdemeanour?
Where instinct says "
This
is not false pretences, there is something
lacking,
but
Ican't quite define
it;
there certainly was an intentional
misrepresentation of existing fact," the answer can generally be found
by reference to those words in the statutory definition of the offence
which are so often
overlooked-"
. . . with intent to defraud. . . ."
Once more, all other phrases can be forgotten, and use can be made
of the words of sec. 32 itself, "
There
was no fraudulent
intent"
or,
if it is preferred, "
...
no intention to defraud."
Police Post-Graduate
Training-Some
Suggestions
By
SERGEANT
R.
PATCHETT
Metropolitan Police
IT is well known that in future the police candidate is to receive a
much fuller training than did his predecessor.
This
is all to the
good,
but
will not much of the excellent training now being devised
for post-war recruits be wasted unless some similar plan is prepared
for the post-graduate training both of recruits and also for serving
policemen, especially aspirants for promotion?
In
the fifteen years since the writer left Peel House and joined
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