Mr. Drew Harris:

Our training in part replicates that because it is sandwich-based in terms of going into the college, then out to a station and then back into college again. For example, when they are being taught about a road traffic collision investigation, they have a practical sense of that and can say, “I remember I was at a road traffic collision and this is what the experience was like as I watched other members.” There is also a huge variety of incidents that they are trained on. Within a classroom, at least somebody can say, “I dealt with something like that”, or can reference it and give some context. Otherwise, they are being taught in a vacuum of knowledge and they are being taught without actually knowing practically what police work looks like. We found it beneficial that they have some sense of the practicalities of operational uniform work.