POLICE CADETS RE-INTRODUCED
Mon, May 21, 2001
Source:
Scotland’s Largest Force to Re-Introduce Police Cadets
They were abolished
on ‘budget saving grounds but clearly the old ideas are still the best. The next chief constable of Strathclyde is set to revive the defunct
police cadet force because of worries over the average age of new recruits.
William Rae, who takes over when Sir John Orr
retires on 1 July, is to consider returning teenage cadets to a frontline
policing role.
Mr Rae’s Dumfries and Galloway
force is the only one in Scotland to have cadets, after Central Scotland
announced last week that it was scrapping its entry scheme for potential young
recruits.
However Mr Rae is a keen advocate of
getting 18-year-olds into the police to avoid losing young talent to other
careers.
He began his own career as a cadet in
Dunbartonshire, where he served alongside another cadet, Roy Cameron, who is now
the chief constable of Lothian and Borders.
Mr
Rae, a former assistant chief constable in Strathclyde, reinstated the cadet
scheme in Dumfries and Galloway when he took over there four years ago.
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