HC Deb 02 February 1989 vol 146 c380W
35. Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what new initiatives he is planning to improve police and police cadet training.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Police training is kept under constant review and a number of developments are in hand. A new modular training course for recruits is to be introduced later this year, a centrally developed training package for newly promoted sergeants has recently come into use and a new course for inspectors on promotion is in the final stages of development. Cadet training is carried out in the seven police forces which run cadet schemes.

We have no plans to issue new guidance on this subject.