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POLICE
At the R.A.F. Police Headquar- ters and School hundreds of young | men are being trained to become Service policemen.
Before they can be accepted for the course they must have attain- ed a high degree of physical fit- ness and intelligence and be of sterling character.
The average age of entrants is between 22 and 28. Many of the recruits have had previous police experience at home or abroad, although chartered accountants, bankers, actors and farm labour- ers have all successfully passed through the school,
The course is intense and con- centrated. First of all the recruits learn the law and its application to Service requirements. Air Force law must then be studied, and fin- ally the recruits are taught how to investigate crime and offences. court martial procedure, traffic and convoy control, first aid, ju-jitsu and self-defence, and the use of weapons.
For practical purposes they are set problems to solve which in- crease their ability to sift evidence and produce results. Mock trials are arranged to enable them not only to give evidence in the pro- per way, but also to judge and sum up a case on its merits.
All the recruits are under the personal supervision of instructors from the time they arrive until they leave on the completion of the course.
They are then posted to various R.A.F. stations where they are able to deal with any emergency that arises, from minor matters of
to the activities discipline
of
enemy agents.
The Commanding Officer of the school has had 20 years' experi- ence of Service police work and instruction. His staff is specially duties, selected fur instructional
of men and is composed
who pass themselves have had to
higher in considerably course standard to that which they have to teach.
One of the Flight Sergeant in- structors served 14 years in the Metropolitan Police, Including C.J.D. branch 10 years in the
and the flying squad.
It has been found that at the end of every course the intellec- man has tual standard of each been considerably increased. When a recruit arrives he may suffer from an inferiority complex and be shy of hearing his own voice. The instructor tells him to stand up in the class, and if he is inaudi- ble, he is sent to the back of the room and told to speak louder. If he still cannot be heard he turns about and talks to the wall. He must then raise his voice until he can be heard clearly by everyone. This method soon enables the re- cruit to regain confidence in him- self.
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