The higher training of police

Abstract

During the past 18 years, the higher training of the British police has evolved rapidly as part of a training structure which has itself been built up from post‐war foundations. This structure provides substantial residential and refresher training for recruits in district police training centres, specialist training (e.g. in detective work, driving, crime prevention, public relations, forensic science, civil defence,fingerprinting, mounted branch, dog‐handling), and continuous in‐force training, which inter alia prepares officers for the two stiff professional examinations which they must pass to qualify for promotion to sergeant and inspector respectively. There are thus ample facilities within the structure for teaching the police officer the technique of his work.

Citation

Stead, P.J. (1966), "The higher training of police", Education + Training, Vol. 8 No. 10, pp. 446-447. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015758