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Officers really are getting younger as recruitment age lowered to 17
Picachu
Theres nothing wrong with the age of the trainees as long as the training is quality. Unfortunately the training has never been worse, and the demands of the job have never been so high. With a proper, practical based, training program the recruits could get a good grounding in the challenges of the role long before they hit the street. Instead we have a pathetic tuck box program of classroom teaching, usually taught by officers who are lazy or too afraid to work in frontline policing themselves. All this does is produce an environment where the initial teaching is so poor that officers have to 'learn on the job'. Without some life experience, and with the lack of experienced PCs or PSs anymore, this is where the issues will really begin to show.
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Picachu
Theres nothing wrong with the age of the trainees as long as the training is quality. Unfortunately the training has never been worse, and the demands of the job have never been so high. With a proper, practical based, training program the recruits could get a good grounding in the challenges of the role long before they hit the street. Instead we have a pathetic tuck box program of classroom teaching, usually taught by officers who are lazy or too afraid to work in frontline policing themselves. All this does is produce an environment where the initial teaching is so poor that officers have to 'learn on the job'. Without some life experience, and with the lack of experienced PCs or PSs anymore, this is where the issues will really begin to show.
