POLICE COLLEGE
TRAINING GROUND FOR HIGHER RANKS LONDON METROPOLITAN FORCE BILL BEFORE COMMONS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 24th May. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilniour, moving the second reading of the Metropolitan Police Bill, said that tho most important changes would be tlie establishment of a. police college as a training ground for the higher rank and the recruitment of a portion of the rank and file for short service. Mr Lansbury moved the rejection on the ground that the- proposals impaired the democratic constitution of the force, and introduced a. substantial measure of militarisation. It was barefaced class legislation, aiming at finding jobs as officers for unemployed public school and university men.
Captain Hacking, in closing the debate, denied suggestions that the police force was to bo turned into an armed fighting force. There was no such intention.
The Bill was read a second time by 321 votes to 60.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 25 May 1933, Page 7
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