Arkansas' First State Police Recruit Training School

Download or read book Arkansas' First State Police Recruit Training School written by Steven A. Coppinger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was generally presumed that all one needed to be effective at policing was common sense. Arkansas State Police Superintendent Arthur Gray Albright recognized the fallacy of this assumption. When Governor Carl E. Bailey signed Act 166 of 1937 into law expanding the number of men Albright could employ as state policemen as well as the duties the department was expected to carry out, Albright set out to properly train his staff. This book chronicles the steps Albright, Assistant Superintendent Robert T. LaFollette, Lieutenant Lindsey Hatchett, Lieutenant J. Earl Scroggin and others took to organize and host Arkansas' first state police recruit training school.