POLICE TRAINING
COMPREHENSIVE COURSE
There will be no dearth of trainees for the police depot in Rintoul Street, which has now been open lor a week after having been closed since 1930 as an economy measure. The men at present in training will'undergo a very comprehensive course, details of which were given to a "Post 11 reporter today by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. G. ■Wohlmann)T who said that the applicants were a fine , stamp of men. No one who had not passed the sixth standard, he said, would be. accepted. So far the applicants included men of much higher degrees of education. There are about twenty men at the depot, and the course, which will last about three. or four months, includes knowledge of those Statutes and regulations which affect police work, the law ■of evidence, first-aid work, drill, practical contact with the Courts and their procedure, and a certain amount of practical police duty. It is hoped to add training in life-saving, and there | will also, be lectures given on the more advanced aspects of police work, such as medical jurisprudence, criminal investigation, photography as applied to police work, the fingerprint system, firearms and ballistics, and kindred subjects,
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1935, Page 11
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201POLICE TRAINING Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1935, Page 11
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