Police course criticised
PA Wellington New Zealand’s only university specialist police course has been described as a white elephant by the Police Association. The association has called on its members to ignore the Massey University Diploma of Police Studies.
A police industrial advocate, Mr Graham Harding, said that until the police administration recognised the diploma as a specialised police tertiary qualification it was a waste of time for officers to do the diploma course. A Wellington policewoman, Marie Scott, was one of two police to complete the diploma in 1983. Constable Scott and Inspector Keith Knox were the first graduates of the diploma which was set up in 1981, by the police administration and Massey University. But Constable Scott dis-
covered gaining the diploma was simpler than having it recognised by the department by which it was initiated, when she applied for the police tertiary qualifications allowance early in 1984. A year after her application for the allowance she received notice that her application had been turned down on the grounds that she did not meet the criteria.
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