Frontline policing at risk from all graduate plans, warns top crime commissioner Plans to turn policing into an all-graduate profession risks denying experienced older recruits such as former soldiers from the job 4 July 2021 • 8:26am Police on the frontline Priti Patel has been urged to abandon all-graduate police plans as officers would rather serve alongside former soldiers when breaking up a night-time brawl than people with “expressive dance” degrees. Marc Jones, the incoming chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said plans to make policing an all-graduate profession risked weakening the frontline by deterring older, experienced recruits like former soldiers.