John Gaskain

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

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[2] to 1962. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in 1962.[3]

References

  1. ^ ‘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
  2. ^ Gloucestershire Echo
  3. ^ News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 08, 1962; pg. 6; Issue 55543