Smeeagain wrote:Thank you for all your replies.
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The comments could be construed not so much as you HAVE to have a police background but rather you need to be of the standard of a police driver. But either way, as far as I can establish, both comments aren't accurate, and by that I mean Rospa Gold standard may well be the same/similar as police driver but it isn't the stated criteria.
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One of the criteria for a Gold award that was often quoted by our local RoSPA examiners about 15 years ago was that they were... "looking for someone whose driving, in their opinion, indicated that they had the potential to do well on a police advanced course"
We should be cautious when examiners use phrases such as... "need to be of the standard of a police driver", because it raises the question of which particular standard of police driving is the examiner referring to?
Our erstwhile examiners, now retired, implied that Gold would be awarded to an associate who exhibited the standard of driving of a police driver who had successfully completed the response course [without sirens, lights or speed exemption, of course]. Hence their regard for ..."someone whose driving indicated that, in their opinion, they had the potential to do well on a police advance course".