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[Ju Ju]

Just heard that this on the news.

 Maybe if it is a specialist degree for policing, as in nursing degrees for nurses and paramedic degree for paramedics etc., but just any old degree?

Maybe a degree might help with the very heavy load of paperwork, but dealing with people at the very worst time in their lives? How is a degree going to help when informing people that their loved ones have been killed in a car accident, arresting abusive, drunk/drugged offenders, clearing up after a someone has had a fatal accident with a chain saw, so the widow doesn't have to deal with that as well and so on.

 As in all professions, there are good, bad and indifferent. Having a degree will not change this, as in all profession they are recruiting from the public!

 Requirements of a police officer? To be empathetic, kind, to be able to risk assess and not rush in to be a hero, to be able to work as part of a team, to like people, to be accepting of differences, non judgemental or predjusticed, to take charge.....and so on. Achieving a degree will not guarantee these qualities.

 Maybe it might have done away with predjustices I encountered from my sister and her DH when I first went out with my DH, now a retired police officer. Apparently, he wasn't good enough for me as he didn't have a degree and that policemen were 'thick'!

[honeybun]

I agree, obviously there should be a minimum education requirement but can't see how a degree is going to help the average policeman. My son looked at joining the police at one point with his computing degree but it was a very specific job so that was a bit different.

The average policeman has to be all things to all people so a reasonable education and a great deal of empathy I would think.

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[Ju Ju]

In the 70s, DH had to have the minimum of 5 'o' levels, then had to embark on an initial training for 3 months, followed by continuing education and a probationary period, where he was placed in the back of beyond for a year in the care of police officers, nearing retirement  and just wanted a quiet life. Fortunately he was able to transfer later to a busy city for several years and gained more valuable experience. Hopefully training and education has improved since then and of course the nature and pressures of policing have changed considerably.  DH did work with policemen, who did have degrees, but this did not equip them necessarily with the qualities that you would wish a policeman to have. They did recruit from members of the forces, who were more mature and experienced in life.

[Joyce]

My hubby was in the police for 25 years. No degree prior to that, just life experiences. He joined in his mid 20's after being in Civil Engineering.  I doubt having a degree will make much difference. It's one thing knowing the law, but the job entails a heck of a lot more than that.

[honeybun]

Nurses now need a degree too. I really think that's a shame. There are so many that would make great nurses but just don't get the qualifications necessary.
My cousin went into nursing the old fashioned way many years ago. On the job with the matron in charge. She has now been a nurse for 35 years and is great at her job. Perhaps for speciality nursing then a degree is helpful as technology has moved on a lot, but for general nursing then surely A levels would be enough. Nursing I think is a vocation and some young people are being denied a chance to follow that.


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[CLKD]

 

Won't work.  Hasn't worked in Nursing thus far  …….. I have  a relative in the Force and he went in at 'A' Level/City and Guilds and worked his way up.  One moment the Government are saying that every Force should have a wide ethnic diversity then they are saying everyone has to have a Degree …….. but there isn't a Degree Course 

The NHS got rid of Auxillaries 

[honeybun]

No CLKD, they don't mean a policing degree course, they mean people who have degrees apply to the police.

Dont actually think there is such a thing as a City and Guilds course any more.


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[Limpy]

The Degree requirement for police people seems plain daft.
Can't see how a degree is going to teach anybody how to deal with drunks rolling around legless getting obnoxious on a Saturday night.