http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/latest?articleid=3081630
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WOULD-BE police officers who failed entrance tests will be hired after all as bosses struggle to employ enough recruits.----
'They would have had a rejection letter. They've now had a letter saying "We feel you've been disadvantaged by the way you've been assessed" and asked if they want be reconsidered.
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All candidates go through a process, including written exercises and a structured interview, designed to test ability and awareness of issues such as race and diversity.
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'We increased it to 60 per cent because we had far too many. We started to get the cream off the top.
'We think we are still taking the cream – it might be single rather than double cream. We are not taking the dregs.
Nice of them to discribe members of the public as "dregs"
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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV
Snap Unhappy“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code