A series filmed over nine months inside Thames Valley Constabulary. Training Recruits
Lord Scarman called for longer training to cope with today's policing problems. Yet 14 weeks at a Home Office Training Centre plus two more weeks at Thames Valley's own centre is all that new recruits receive before they face the public. All the instructors are working policemen, so the attitudes they pass on offer revealing insights into the way the police see us.
Tonight's programme follows several young recruits preparing to 'get stuck in' to Reading's gruelling three-shift system.
Producers ROGER GRAEF. CHARLES STEWART BBC Bristol