John Gaskain Explained

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

  1. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42051/supplement/4006/data.pdf 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. http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Nostalgia-story-Cheltenham-police/story-20383320-detail/story.html Gloucestershire Echo
  4. News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 08, 1962; pg. 6; Issue 55543

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