From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How and why there were changes I don't know. Perhaps the
Police College web site or the Home Office can shed some
light on this.
As for the appointed Chief Constables being effective,
that's a matter for heated debate. I believe there were
many cases of nepotism, incompetence and lack of management
skill that suggested that career police officers would do a
better job, that was certainly the case until they became
more of a political lobby which is a fairly recent phenomenon.
About the time the Home Office stopped issuing directives and
instructions and started issuing 'guidance'.
To describe the current graduate entry scheme as a sandwich
course is a bit far of the mark. The calibre of entrant is
high and selection is tough (the equivalent of officer entry
to the armed forces), while they get at least a year on the
streets doing a real police officers job. From there on
they accelerate to Inspector rank so much faster than normal
they might as well be direct recruits to the rank - when I
was a PC in a provincial force it took 7-10 years to reach
Sargent if you were lucky, good Sargents made inspector in
another 10 years if they were lucky. As I said before the
graduate entrant makes it in 4-5 even in the provinces.
Regards
Jerry
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