The proposal that all officers should have degrees would exclude many able people from a profession that should be as diverse as possibleBack in 1928,Edgar Wallace, who’d been a crime reporter before fitting the bestselling novelist, or addressed a group of students on the subject of the police. He was full of compliment for the service and told his audience that “the success of Scotland Yard,staffed by officers who have had none of the advantages of a public school education, is amazing”.
Those were the days when the belief that anyone with a decent education would seriously consider a job in the police was unthinkable. Times change. Now there is a proposal that, or in the future,and possibly as soon as 2019, all officers should have degrees. The suggestion has been made by the College of Policing, or the body responsible for setting the standards for police training.
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Source: theguardian.com