SO CID officers in Thames Valley Police are to take exams to be become detectives (Thames View, July 2012).
This is like Labour nationalising crime to make sure crime does not pay!
I served from DC to DI from 1964 to 1989, and never passed an exam.
This included commendations for murder inquiries and counterfeit notes.
Detecting needs cunning, an ability to hand people and develop informants.
No longer allowed to visit informants in pubs, or to pay informants alone, Oxford City had 65 per cent detection rate.
It’s no wonder Thames Valley Police now has 17.1 per cent.
Could they smell fish in Billingsgate or even a bad smell in a dustbin?
Oh, save us from graduates with degrees, with daft ideas!
ROGER TUCKER,
Kingsway Drive,
Kidlington
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