John Gaskain

John Stuart Hinton Gaskain, CBE, OStJ, QPM[1] (11 May 1910 – 16 November 1971) was Commandant of the National Police College from January 1966 to July 1968.[2]

Gaskain was educated at Haileybury. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1936. He qualified as a barrister in 1944. He was Assistant Chief Constable of Norfolk Police from 1942 to 1952; Chief Constable of the Cumberland and Westmorland force from 1952 to 1959; and Chief Constable of Gloucestershire from 1960[3] to 1962. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in 1962.[4]

References

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  1. ^ London Gazette
  2. ^ ‘GASKAIN, John Stuart Hinton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 16 May 2016
  3. ^ Gloucestershire Echo
  4. ^ News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 08, 1962; pg. 6; Issue 55543


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