Police Criticised
MIIKY advice to you is not to IVI have the police college system introduced into Scotland," Mr. A. N. Keith, Chief Constable of Lanarkshire, told policemen at a social at Coatbridge, Scotland.
Brigadier-General R. M. Dudgeon, inspector of constabulary, had been telling in en that, just as every private in the army had a field-marshal's baton in his haversack, so every police constable liad chief constable's baton in his pocket.
Then Mr. Keith gave them his advice.
"If you join the Metropolitan Police as an ordinary constable," he said, "you will soon find that some other fellow from the Police College steps in front of vou.
"He becomes an inspector and you have lost your chance of using the chief constable'* baton which BrigadierGeneral Dudgeon said you in youf pocket.
"You will have to examine padlocks at night time for the rest of your life.
"Don't let that English system get in here, or you will never get a chance of being a chief constable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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