All new police officers must have a degree from next year

[sal]

Prospective officers can either complete a three-year "degree apprenticeship", a postgraduate conversion course or a degree.

So just a way to pay them tulip salaries for the first 3 years, or force them into indentured servitude student loans debts.

[Platypus]

In my limited interaction with the rozzers they've always come across as not very bright

My experience too. I think they come across as not very bright because they're not very bright. Also they're c***s.

[SueEllen]

My experience too. I think they come across as not very bright because they're not very bright. Also they're c***s.

It takes a "special" kind of person to be a police officer.

[sasguru]

My experience too. I think they come across as not very bright because they're not very bright. Also they're c***s.

Thanks, that brightened my day.

[d000hg]

Have we done this one?

All new police officers in England and Wales to have degrees - BBC News

In my limited interaction with the rozzers they've always come across as not very bright, so probably a good thing.
Assuming a crap degree is better than nothing.

It's not 2020 next year You can't just skip most of Trump's first term no matter how much you want to.

[d000hg]

My experience too. I think they come across as not very bright because they're not very bright. Also they're c***s.

Why do you hate the fuzz so much?

They're probably pretty average, brains wise... which is to say not especially bright. I think they're trained NOT to think too much but follow the procedures rigidly. And then most become bitter and expect the worst in everyone because that's what they see day in day out.

Thankless, I don't know why people want to do it unless to have a career advancing up the ranks.

[vetran]

Why do you hate the fuzz so much?

They're probably pretty average, brains wise... which is to say not especially bright. I think they're trained NOT to think too much but follow the procedures rigidly. And then most become bitter and expect the worst in everyone because that's what they see day in day out.

Thankless, I don't know why people want to do it unless to have a career advancing up the ranks.

would agree with this, a niece was a PCSO and the stories she tells of the Police being an extension of mental health & social services would make your hair curl.

[SueEllen]

would agree with this, a niece was a PCSO and the stories she tells of the Police being an extension of mental health & social services would make your hair curl.

If you don't spend enough money on one area of social provision then other services e.g. police, firefighters, NHS have to take up the slack.

[d000hg]

I don't think I know any coppers, a couple of retired officers, but a friend of mine became a PCSO a few years back. She's young and one of the most positive and bubbly people you'd meet... but after only this short time you can sense it being slowly wrung out of her.

[meridian]

Ex-flat mate in a shared house was in the Met, his stories about cleaning up after jumpers on the tracks were some of the worst I've heard