ble the ideal candidate'. According to the Observer, Newman was
taught at Bram- shill, the senior police officers' training col- lege, by Alderson, and 'uses the language of sociology and "preventive policing" just as fluently' as his old tutor. Well: we shall see if sociology works better than hammering. Reading the acres of the comment on this issue, one gets the impression nobody has the answer. 'Could there be scope for im- aginative rethinking of the role of the special constable?' asked a rather desperate reader in the Daily Telegraph. 'Surely', in- sisted one of its readers, J. Rigg of Henley- on-Thames, 'it is time that police uniforms are re-designed so that they look instantly effective and efficient rather than pompous and bumbling'. The News of the World turned for comfort to the news that 'the only mixed marriage couple in Britain's police', serving 'on the front line of battle- scarred Brixton', were expecting a baby. It quoted Scotland Yard: 'This super couple are illustrating how racial harmony can work a million times better than any publicity campaign or recruitment drive'.
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