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John Stuart Hinton Gaskain, CBE, OStJ, QPM (11 May 1910 – 16 November 1971) was Commandant of the National Police College from January 1966 to July 1968.

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 to 1962. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in 1962.

References

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

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