All recieved this week:

Hey John!!!

Dont know if you remember me but I attended your course in xx on 4th July 09.
I just want to let you know that I received my big brown envelope today! I was dreading opening it but I passed with 60%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just want to say a big big big thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not have done it without your course! Your material was brilliant and you were a brilliant teacher! I am so happy and Im going out to celebrate with my friends now.
Needs to start revising for my Interview now hehe!
Thank you so much again!

I would like to say a very big thank you for the help and advice that I received on 5th July in Kent.” I was dreading the police assessment role play exercises before I went on the Talking Blues course, but enjoyed doing them at my assessment centre after being taught how to approach them, and not to fear them. I managed to keep the conversation going in all of them for the full 5 minutes, and had to be cut short, and also the same for the interview questions!Got my results through yesterday and scored 64% overall, with 100% for oral communication.Many thanks, especially to Graham, don’t think I would of passed without your excellent help.

Hi,
I took the talking blues course on June 28th at Stafford, just to let you know I passed the police assesment and have my fitness test and would like to say thank you for the help. I will definately recommend this course to friends.
Once again Thank You

Hi,
I just wanted to thank you for all the help you gave me back in June (26th/ Hatfield) for my police assessment day preparation, I got my results yesterday and passed with 62% so am looking forward to my day 2 now!

Always makes us feel good, and we reckon that if we get stopped for speeding, at least 20% of the uniform officers in the country should know us by now!

I know this is a favourite topic of mine, but I do despair about how police assessment centre candidates answer questions or deal with role play situations involving inappropriate behaviour. We check literally dozens of forms that describe how the candidate has overheard inappropriate remarks made in public over a period of a few days or weeks, so they wait until they can speak to the victim to see what they want to happen. Having done so, they then have a word with the offender to tell them to stop it, as it is not very nice. This is completely wrong. Think about it. To begin with, why wait? Inappropriate behaviour MUST be challenged there and then. If you wait, you are effectively condoning it, and the victim probably has to put up with more of the same treatment. This is YOUR fault, as you could have stopped it had you acted earlier. Then speaking to the victim. Why do this? If the victim says they want no action taking, would you leave the matter there? Hopefully not, so why speak to them (other than afterwards to explain why you did what you did and offer support). Finally, why speak to the offender in private? You should challenge them in public at once, so that they know immediately their behaviour is unacceptable. The victim knows you are supporting them. Any witnesses will know that if they use the same kind of behaviour you will challenge them. You are also setting an example. Speaking to the offender in private does away with all these advantages. If they get embarrassed because they are challenged over a sexist remark, that is more incentive not to make such a remark again.

Taking any other form of action is soft soaping things, and shows us that you probably have little moral courage. We are looking for people at assessment who would challenge at once, so you need to show us you can play the game. If you do not understand this, you will fail. Police interviews and assessments are designed to test your moral courage, and your ability to behave ethically, and you must understand this.