"Varsity Graduates as Police Force Recruits

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 132, 7 June 1935, Page 7

"Varsity Graduates as Police Force Recruits

deliberate choice of career Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. It has been the practice of the New Zealand Polico Department during the last two years to require that recruits joining the force shall have attained at least the sixth standard of primary school education. Before that tlio fifth standard was all that was deemed necessary. The result, said’ Commissioner Wohlmann to-day, has been that a very tine type of young man has been offering and appointed. Within two years between GO and SO young men all fulfilling the exacting physical and hightcr educational standards had been recruited by the force. A number had attended high school or even university college for a period. Asked whether men of the college type were enlisting because professional avenues in which they would ordinarily move were closed by economic circumstances, Mr. Wohlmann agreed that in some cases this might be so. He had found, however, that the majority of those who had enjoyed college education and who had been accepted by the department had chosen the force as a career because they were confident’ of rising high in the service of the department.