{"id":6074,"date":"2026-02-12T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2026\/02\/12\/licensing-officer-calls-for-trial-and-error-police-to-have-better-training\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:54:08","slug":"licensing-officer-calls-for-trial-and-error-police-to-have-better-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/licensing-officer-calls-for-trial-and-error-police-to-have-better-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing officer calls for \u2018trial and error\u2019 police to have better training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p FontSize=\"12\" FontFamily=\"Verdana\" Foreground=\"#FF242424\" FontWeight=\"Normal\" FontStyle=\"Normal\"    TextAlignment=\"Left\"   style=\"font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:#242424;font-weight:Normal;font-style:Normal;text-align:Left;\"><span>A police licensing officer has called for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to introduce a national framework for training in licensing, after claiming officers are forced to resolve issues based on &#8216;trial and error \u2014 and mainly error&#8217; due to lack of support.rnrnhttp:\/\/www.morningadvertiser.co.uk\/General-News\/Licensing-officer-calls-for-trial-and-error-police-to-have-better-trainingrnrnThe article quotes ACPO&#8217;s Licensing Lead, Chief Constable Adrian Lee saying that he is impressed with the level of knowledge and expertise demonstrated by police licensing officers and refers to external training provided by the IoL.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police licensing officer has called for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to introduce a national framework for training in licensing, after claiming officers are forced to resolve issues based on &#8216;trial and error \u2014 and mainly error&#8217; due to lack of support.rnrnhttp:\/\/www.morningadvertiser.co.uk\/General-News\/Licensing-officer-calls-for-trial-and-error-police-to-have-better-trainingrnrnThe article quotes ACPO&#8217;s Licensing Lead, Chief Constable Adrian Lee saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}