What is Arthur Young (police officer)?
{{refimprove|date=September 2009}} [[Colonel]] '''Sir Arthur Edwin Young''', [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]], [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]], [[Royal Victorian Order|CVO]], [[Order of St John|KStJ]], [[Queen's Police Medal|KPM]] (15 February 1907 – 20 January 1979) was a [[British people|British]] police officer. He was [[City of London Police|Commissioner of Police of the City of London]] from 1950 to 1971 and was also the first head of the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] to be called the [[Chief Constable]], instead of Inspector-General. Young helped create the post of [[Chief Inspector of Constabulary]]. In the early 1950s, he played a crucial role in policing [[decolonisation]] in the [[British Empire]], and developed a model of public service policing that was not liked by everyone in some colonies but which time has shown to have been a good idea. During the 1960s, he led the way in modernising British police recruitment and in improving the training of senior officers. ==Early life and education== Young was born in [[Eastleigh, Hampshire|Eastleigh]], [[Hampshire]], the third of four children of Edwin Young (1878–1936), a builder and contractor, and his wife Gertrude Mary (née Brown; 1880–1945). He went to school in [[Southsea]] from 1912 to 1915 and then [[Portsmouth Grammar School]] from 1915 to 1924. He was not very good at school, but liked the [[Officers' Training Corps]]; later he returned to present prizes and told the pupils that his parents would have been very surprised to see him in the hall on speech day because he had never come close to winning any school award. Aged sixteen, he left to join the [[Portsmouth Borough Police]], against his family's wishes. His mother and grandmother never approved because they thought the police an unsuitable career for a young man from an middle-class family. When his maternal aunt Emma Brown married Superintendent Samuel Bowles of the [[Hampshire Constabulary]], she made him resign. ==Portsmouth Borough/City Police== Young's father's busines