ACCOMPLISHED POLICEMEN
MEDICINE AND LAW DETECTIVE ON THE STAGE Lord Trenchnrd, British Polico Commissioner, wants an accomplished police force. Here are three policemen of whom ho can be proud, says a London newspaper. First, Detective Smith, soon, apparently, to become Dr. Smith, for he is studying medicine at Guy's Hospital. He may he called by this name because he is so shy that ho does not want his real name to bo inudo public. " Smith " is in the C.1.1). First he was a stable hand, then a farmer, then a constable at Heading. Now bo is 28, and has been training as a doctor at Guy's for three years. He is mjirried to the daughter of a Basingstoke doctor. Has a daughter aged three. Sergeant "\V. J. Williams, of tho Birmingham force, has just added tho degree of Bachelor of Laws to the B.Sc. ho already held. He joined the force seven years ago, and has studied in his spare time at Birmingham University. He is 29, married, and has a son aged three. His father was a policeman, and he intends to remain one. Up to a few weeks ago Detective Leonard Ambler, or Bradford City Police, had never been on the stage. For a week he has hold tho audiences spellbound at a Bradford theatre as Francois Villon, in the local amateur production of " The Vagabond King." He has a fine tenor voice, and critics say ho is tho greatest amateur stage discovery for years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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247ACCOMPLISHED POLICEMEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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