Evening star., 1928-02-26
POLICE TRAINING
SCHOOL SUCCEEDS
Institution Started Ten Years
Ago Is Aid to D. c.
BIueCOatS.

Being policeman in Washington
requires large quantity Of interesting
and very specialized knowledge.
l1,e training school Of the Mctropoli-
tan Police Department has instructed
nearly every member Of the depart
ncn.t and it has instructed them in
some very obscure and individual sub
JectS For example:
Wilson. at 3 am. seeing the door
Of Johnson's coal Office open. enters
same and steals S34,95 from the cash
register" Does Wilson commit rob-
berry. burglary, cmoezzlcment or may
hem?
If you found a person dumping gar
hage i'll a vacant lot and YOU were a
Policeman. what would YOU do? Sup
rose this lot contained dead animals
what would YOU do thcn?
Get High Averages.
what is a hack"
What is nanSlaughtsr?"
what is q policcnan?"
These are a few of the questions
asked members Of the school on the
last examination. There were between
so and S5 policemen in the school and
they got an average Of 9oSo3 per cent
Plus.
There arc lc47 members of the
Metropolitan Police Department and
nearly all of them have been TO the
school by now. L vas started in 1917
b. Inspector W S Shelby. then
sergeant. under the auspices of Mai
Pullman. superintendent of police,
Cnly about so men were admitted TO
the school at each session. The ses-
were held each year. Thus not many
officers could be instructed at firs',
end the object OF the schoo,-to send
every member Of the department:
through it-waS necessarily slow in be-
iae achieved
But after 10 years the list of gradu.
a;es has grown. until now it includes
rearly every Office This year the
school has membership COMPOSED
Ch.efiv of new members Of the force
end from now on the object will b.
70 instruct tie new men as fast as
they Join.
Inspector Shelby. who worked out
the course CT ins,ruction-and did it
50 well. by the way. that scme Of his
original examination questions are still!
used-was succeeded bv Sergt Edward
Curry when Shelby was promoted to
captaincy. Sergt. F. S, w. Burke
took charge after Sergt, Curry. and re
In turn was succeeded b. Sergt. o. S
Crump. who now runs the school.
Courses Of instruction.
The course OF instruction includes
the following subjects: City geography,
crime Classification. police and traffic
regulations, police manual. invest!ga-
tons and reports. first aid. calisthenics
and miscellaneous subjects. including
Constitution and Federal Government,
local history and government. courts
end court procedure. licenses organiza-
ton Of the police department and re-
1ations b'tween the citizen and the
policeman
The ca'isthenics class includes the
usual sattine-up exercises and trigger
squeezing. very special exercise in
which policemen are supposed to be
rsost efficient There is target prac-
tlce with reyolvers at a gallery under
Foi's Theater
Lectures are delivered By the heads
OF the department Oh the special SUBJ
tects with which they are most famii-
lar. At the last session the late In
s-ector Evans. Inspector Shelby In
scector Harrison. Stoll INSPECTOR Head
ley and Lieut.. Burke addressed the
students at various times.
In addition 10 the regular staff CT
Instructors and the officers who deliver
lectures. courses are conducted by DR.
]. J Kiiroy of the board OF police and
fire surgeons In relations between the
bard and the officers and bv Daniel
Ping Of The Evening Star on the rela-
ticns between policemen and newspaper
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