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Graham Rutherford
"Oh just Criminal Law to a very high degree, and how to deal with the
public, forensic medicine we had a lot of that, I had a long course in
forensic medicine, cutting up bodies and pathology and things like that.
Oh we had a very very thorough training. Plus of course dinner jackets at
night, you see, no question of a pint of beer in the bar, we had dinner
jackets and a dinner with waiters behind your chair, all that sort of
thing, which made an enormous difference. In fact I think my education
really began when I went to the Police College.... There were wealthy men,
there were poor men, there were university graduates, people like myself
from grammar school, oh we were a really mixed bag. A lot of them came out
of, not a lot, couldn't be a lot, because there was only a handful of us
in any case, but two or three of them came out of the army to join, join
the Police Service. The idea was a good one. But of course the trouble
was, as soon as the war began, '39, they closed the place down just like
that. And everybody on the course who was then serving went straight into
one of the fighting services. And a lot didn't come back."
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