POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 9

POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL

BASIC PROCEDURE EXPLAINED

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, June

Student participation was the basic procedure in the Police Training .school at frentham said the Director of Police Training (Mr D. G. Ball) to a meeting of the Honorary Justices of the Peace Association.

“The academic standard for admission to the Police Force is Standard VI,” said Mr Ball. “Under this system we are going to get young men in the force who are not fitted to be constables. The committee on police training is now working on another selection method.

“The present selection method is not fair to the force and not fair to the youths. If we adopt the right selection procedure the men will be better prepared.”

Under the new system the training course took two years: recruits spent 1? weeks at the training school, and then went out on the beat.

While on the beat they had to take correspondence lessons in law. The course was concluded with another two weeks at the training school. After this the constable would be able to sit the sergeants’ examination, said Mr Ball.

As New Zealand’s cities were growing, so was the amount of crime and the criminal was becoming more scientific, he added. The previous police training course of eight weeks vzc“ hopelessly inadequate for modern conditions.