POLICE TRAINING DIRECTOR
Senior-Sgt. Claridge Appointed
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 1.
Senior Sergeant G. Claridge, a senior instructor at the Trentham Police Training School, will be the new Director of Police training, the Minister of Police (Mr Connolly) announced today. He succeeds the present director, Mr D. G. Ball, who will retire next year.
Mr Connolly said Senior Sergeant Claridge would go to the United Kingdom and Australia at the end of December for overseas training. He will attend a course at the United Kingdom Police College for three months and then be attached to college staff for another months. After that he will spend two and a
half months studying police training centres in the United Kingdom. On his way home he will visit two training schools in Australia.
Senior Sergeant Claridge has had 22 years’ service with the police, all of it in Wellington, apart from a nine-year period in Dunedin.' Before being appointed to the Police Training School in 1956, he was attached to the criminal registration section at Police Headquarters.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 5
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