Rob Scattergood Visit

24/11/2010

Yesterday on the 24th November we had a visit from Rob Scattergood, a former student on the UPS course at Chesterfield college. He is now part of the RMP (Royal Military Police) and has just finished phase one of his training which was 14 weeks long.

He came to talk to us about how he joined the RMP and what it was like. He started college wanting to join the police, but later realised that it would be nearly impossible to do so because of his age and therefore found out some information about the RMP and the job it does. He advised anyone who wishes to pursue a career in the Army to sign up to the Army Bursary Scheme, those who are accepted get £1,000 for each year of studying at college and a further £1,000 on completion of basic Army training and it also guarantees them a position in the Army.

I found the talk very interesting and it also gave me another option of a career rather than the police, although joining the Army isn't my preferred choice of service, I would consider it as I now know a little bit more about the service and its roles.

Link to Rob's blog