POLICE EXAMS.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 14

POLICE EXAMS.

Results Next Month

The marking of police examination papers would take about another week and the results would probably not be made known to candidates until early in October, the Commissioner of Police (Mr C. L, Spencer) said in a telephone interview yesterday. More than 800 members of the New Zealand Police, believed to be a record number, sat the examinations on June 8, 9 and 10.

Normally, the results are known to candidates about six to eight weeks after they have sat the examinations. . “The large number of candidates sitting has meant a big tar’ - in marking,” Mr Spencer said. “That has been the reason why results have not yet come to hand.”

Almost 30 per cent of the total force at the time, 2698. sat examinations for promotion to sergeant, senior-ser-geant and commissioned officer ranks. Fifty-seven sat the examinations to qualify them for commissioned officer rank; 318 sat the senior-Ser-geant examinations, and 422 the sergeant examinations. Another 49 candidates sat the literary section of the examinations. One of the reasons for holding the examinations early in the year was that the force was desperately in need of qualified men for the rank off commissioned officer and senior-sergeant. At that time, there were only four senior-sergeants qualified to become officers, „nd there were no sergeants qualified to become seniorsergeants. There were nine temporary senior-sergeants and the same number of . temporary sergeants. A number of men in the New Zealand Police contingent in Cyprus sat the examinations, but Mr Spencer said yesterday that this had not been the cause of any delay in announcing results.