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| | ESSEX POLICE: History Notebook issue 43 - The Very Model of a Modern Chief Constable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Not long after joining, Nightingale was selected to attend the Metropolitan Police College at Hendon, under a scheme that had been introduced by Lord Trenchard to train selected individuals for the highest ranks in the police service. |
 | | The emphasis at Hendon was on physical fitness and character building rather than academia, and whilst at Hendon John Nightingale had a distinguished career, being captain of both rugby and swimming, as well as obtaining ‘firsts’ in Local Government, Constitutional Law and Police History. |
 | | Returning to the Metropolitan Police in 1956, he was later that year promoted to the rank of Chief Superintendent in charge of ‘H’ Division, which included Whitechapel, Mile End, Bethnal Green, Bow, Poplar and Limehouse, which at that time had an establishment of over 800 officers. |
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