Quarterly Commentary
| Date | 01 April 1955 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X5502800201 |
| Published date | 01 April 1955 |
| Subject Matter | Quarterly Commentary |
THE
POLICE
VOl. XXVIII.
No.2.
JOURNAL
APRIL-JUNE, 1955
Quarterly
Commentary
POLICE
COLLEGE
DEVELOPMENTS
THE challenging
and
constructive comments on the work of the
Police College made by a distinguished
contributor
in the
January
number of this
JOURNAL
should be
of
value to the College authorities
at
the present time. Seven years have passed since the initial
Junior
course assembled at Ryton-on-Dunsmore,
and
many of the sergeants
and
recently promoted inspectors who attended the first course
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are
now, with further service
and
experience behind them, steadily
and
deservedly going forward to the senior ranks. Most, if not all,
the present directing staff of the College are former students, while
the selection by police authorities
of
present
and
former members
of
the
directing staff for posts
of
chief constable
and
assistant chief
constable is
proof
of
the quality
of
the officers chosen to
carryon
this work. The White
Paper
on the Higher Training of Police Officers
-which
indicated the Government's policy for the establishment
and
running
of
the
College-contemplated
that
in the process
of
time the
officers who attend the senior courses would be wholly drawn from
the inspectors
and
chief inspectors who, at a previous period
of
their
service, attended the
junior
course.
Records published in recent issues
of
The Police College Magazine
increasingly show the extent to which. students on successive senior
courses included officers who previously attended the
junior
course.
The fact confirms the view
that
the studies on the Senior course should
increasingly be a natural
and
consequential extension,
and
not
a mere
repetition
of
the programme for the
Junior
course.
The
time available
in two comparatively short courses
of
higher training, six months for
the
junior
and
three months for the senior course, is too short for
any
time to be devoted merely to repetition. Moreover, by the time
an inspector or chief inspector reaches the stage
of
nomination for
the senior course, assuming as we are entitled to do
that
his promotion
to superintendent or higher
rank
is being considered, the College
authorities should be entitled also to assume that the degree
of
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