ABSTRACT
Special training tends to differentiate between the community policeman and the ‘real’ policeman. This would not be admitted as policy but nevertheless, it happens in fact. It is strange that the officers selected for building up closer ties with the community should become ‘not real policemen’ when one considers how completely dependent on the community the police are in the execution of their daily work. In a very real sense, every policeman has to be a community policeman. There can be little dispute that police training does indeed concentrate on this enforcement role—the role which is likely to require the least amount of a policeman’s time and which tends to cause barriers to arise between the police and the community. As training exists at present, a positive answer seems quite reasonable. Police forces in Britain tend to vary little in the time a new recruit spends in training.
