CAN I clarify something for Mr J Duckworth (Letters, November 19) who, like many others, is under the misapprehension that all police drivers have to undergo extra training before driving police cars?
I actually have it straight from a police inspector that this is not the case.
The inspector agreed with me that the standard of most police drivers is very low.
He said that when he joined the force, all police drivers did then have to go through extra training, but these days, unless they are driving certain types of police cars, as long as they have passed their ordinary driving test, they are out there in panda cars.
R J WILCOCK, (Astra School of Motoring), Woodville Road, Blackburn.
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