Ask a Policeman
FTER hearing "the Policeman" in the BBC series, British Characters, I am inclined to endorse Mr. Gilbert’s opinion. I don’t think it was the intention of the script-writers to give listeners this impression, and the picture they gave was almost certainly that of an average policeman’s career. But it sounded so infernally dull! And for anyone who is not intending to join the Police Force of Britain there was too much of the technical side of it: how (continued on page 19)
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(continued from page 17) you apply what qualifications you must have, details of promotion and pensions, This of course’ has its interesting side, and if you havé nourished a youthful
ambition fo be a policeman. it may not yet bé too late. But we have heard so much of the British Policeman as a "national characteristic," a sort of stern but kindly friend of the family, all-British to the
soles of his big feet, that it is hard to have him reduced to a less romantic role in the cause of realism.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 17
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179Ask a Policeman New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 17
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