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Hendon Police College is the principal training centre for London's Metropolitan Police Service. Founded with the official name of the Metropolitan Police College, the college is today officially called the Peel Centre, although its original name is still used frequently. Within the police it is known as just "Hendon". It is within walking distance of Colindale tube station on the Northern line. ==As a cadet college== The college was opened on 31 May 1934 by the Prince of Wales,〔"The Police College", ''The Times'', 20 March 1934〕 in the erstwhile buildings of Hendon Country Club, Hendon Aerodrome's club house (which had been used briefly as laboratories of the Standard Telephones and Cables company). The school was the brainchild of Lord Trenchard, who was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1931 to 1935. His experiences as second-in-command of the Royal Flying Corps' Central Flying School in 1913 and 1914 gave him a suitable background for the venture, whilst the location would have been known to him from his time as Chief of the Air Staff (1921–1929). The original concept for the college was a military-style cadet establishment to train officers to enter directly at senior rank, instead of the traditional entry at the lowest rank of constable for all personnel. Trenchard's idea was that in future almost all officers above the rank of Inspector should be selected from college graduates, thus introducing a military-style officer corps. Candidates, of which there were to be about thirty every year, were selected by a competitive examination based on that for the Indian Police Service. Most of the candidates were already serving officers, although some were direct entrants from civilian life. Graduates were given the newly created rank of Junior Station Inspector.〔"The London Police College: Examination of 150 Candidates", ''The Times'', 21 February 1934〕 Cadets who were already serving police officers received an annual salary of £200 and direct entrants received £170. New Junior Station Inspectors were paid £300, rising to £320.〔 The first commandant was Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Halland, previously Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, who was given the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner.〔 The assistant commandant was Lieutenant-Colonel Reggie Senior, seconded from the Indian Police Service with the rank of Superintendent,〔 and the chief instructor was Chief Inspector Carrick, an experienced instructor at the Metropolitan Police Training School,〔"Metropolitan Police College: The Instructors", ''The Times'', 4 April 1934〕 who was replaced by Chief Inspector Hugh Young after his promotion to superintendent and posting back to division in January 1935.〔"Metropolitan Police Changes: Promotions in Uniformed Branch", ''The Times'', 23 October 1934〕〔"Police Appointments", ''The Times'', 4 January 1935〕 It was intended that the Metropolitan Police Training School for constables at Peel House in Westminster should also move to a site adjacent to the college,〔"Police College Opening at Hendon Next Spring", ''The Times'', 28 November 1933〕 but in the end this did not happen until much later. The first thirty-two cadets began their course on 10 May 1934. Twenty were serving officers (two sergeants and eighteen constables) and twelve were new recruits.〔"Metropolitan Police College: The Instructors", ''The Times'', 4 April 1934〕〔"Metropolitan Police College", ''The Times'', 12 April 1934〕 The college was founded upon a modern and scientific approach to training. There were forensic laboratories, detective training facilities, a police driving school〔"School for Police Drivers", ''The Times'', 31 December 1934〕 and a police wireless school,〔"Wireless for Police Officers: School Transferred to Hendon", ''The Times'', 7 January 1935〕 as well as representations of a police court and a police station.〔"Police College Plans", ''The Times'', 26 April 1934〕 The first course completed their training at the college in August 1935. The graduates then spent four months working as ordinary police constables at police stations in West Central London, four months at the various specialist departments at Scotland Yard, two months as Section Sergeants and two months as Station Sergeants. Although they were officially Junior Station Inspectors throughout this period, they wore the uniforms of the rank in which they were serving at the time and not until this twelve-month period was up were they entitled to wear inspector's uniform.〔"Student Policemen on the Beat", ''The Times'', 21 August 1935〕 A Junior Station Inspector was to wear one star over one bar on his epaulettes.〔"New Police Badges", ''The Times'', 27 June 1936〕 The second intake of 29 cadets passed out in December 1935〔"Sir P. Game's Visit to Police College", ''The Times'', 21 December 1935〕 and the third intake of 32 cadets in December 1936.〔"Hendon Police College Awards", ''The Times'', 21 December 1936〕 In 1937, the course was extended from fifteen months to two years, although only one intake ever completed this longer course. In August 1938, Major John Ferguson succeeded Halland as commandant.〔"New Commandant of Hendon College", ''The Times'', 16 August 1938〕 In November 1938 it was announced that the rank of Junior Station Inspector was to be abolished and in future all graduates were to be appointed to the rank of Inspector. Promotion above this rank was also reopened to all officers, whether college graduates or not.〔"Police College Changes", ''The Times'', 26 November 1938〕 The college was closed in September 1939.〔"Hendon Police College to Be Closed", ''The Times'', 7 September 1939〕 197 men had trained there, of whom 188 had graduated.〔"What Hendon Did for the Police", ''The Times'', 7 May 1959〕 Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron (both 1934–1935), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon (1934–1935), Douglas Webb (1935–1936) and Sir John Hill (who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary; 1938–1939), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way (both 1935–1936), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd (1934–1935) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston (1935–1936) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay (1937–1939) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington (1935–1936) of Cambridge and John Gaskain (1936–1937) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir (1934–1935) of Durham, Albert Wilcox (1934–1935) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond (1935–1936) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper (1937–1939) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott (1937–1939) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams (1938–1939) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth (1939) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley. Other graduates included Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Bliss (1936–1937), first National Co-ordinator of Regional Crime Squads of England and Wales, Michael Macoun (1938–1939), Inspector-General of Police of Uganda and later of British Dependent Territories, and the politician Sir Henry Calley (1938–1939). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hendon Police College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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