The Month in Retrospect
| Published date | 01 April 1968 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6804100407 |
| Date | 01 April 1968 |
| Subject Matter | The Month in Retrospect |
Announcing
that
there were
It
coloured policemen serving in England
and
Wales,
Mr.
David Ennals,
Under
Secretary of State,
Home
Office,
addressing acourse
for
senior
police officers on " Police
and
the
Immigrant"
at
Manchester
University, appealed
for
more
applications from people of Com-
monwealth origin with
the
right
physical
and
educational attain-
ments. Meanwhile the first
coloured woman to Join the
Metropolitan police, Mrs. Sislin
Fay
Allen, a former nurse, aged
29, who came to England from
Jamaica in 1962
(left)
was com-
pleting her training.
Uncertainty as to their
future
under the impending amalgamation
of the city force with
that
of
Glamorgan county was causing a
large
number
of officers to leave
the Cardiff force, it was claimed by
the chairman of the Cardiff watch
committee,
Mr.
Lawford Gower.
Some officers were leaving
for
city
forces
not
touched by Govern-
ment
merger proposals, particu-
larly Bristol, while others were
leaving the Service altogether he
added • • • After some hesitation
following the
Home
Secretary's
statement on the subject, the Essex police committee finally resolved to
dispense with numerals on police uniforms
••.
Mr.
John
Webster, assistant
chief constable of
the
Leicester
and
Rutland
constabulary" suggested
that
ex grat ia payments might be
made
to people inconvenienced by the pollee.
This would
not
necessarily indicate
that
the police
had
been wrong
but
rather
that
they were faced with an increasingly complex situation, he said.
Members
of
the West Midland constabulary
are
to
make
representations
to the
Home
Office concerning the Government restrictions on police re-
cruiting.
Under
these restrictions the net increase permitted to
the
force
during the current year is 39
•••
The
West Riding constabulary, below
strength by 852 men
and
29 women, would be allowed a
net
gain
of
only
70 constables in the next 15
months
, it was stated by the chief constable,
Sir George Scott.
"We
have 53 cadets who will become eligible for ap-
pointment to the force during this time , so I am
afraid
we
may
reach the
stage where we will have to tell applicants
that
we wDl put them on the
waiting list or
that
there
are
no vacancies," he said
.••
The
Nottingham
and
Nottinghamshire forces will
not
be permitted to increase their joint
strength after their amalgamation on April I, under the same restrictions;
they will only be permitted to recruit in order to make good wastage •
Recruitment, other than for replacement purposes, will also be
barred
to
the Gloucestershire force.
170
Apr
il 1968
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