RNTE Shotley

During the later 1980s and until 1999, RNTE Shotley was used as a residential centre for civilian police officers to complete their basic training.

Forces which used this centre included Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Thames Valley and South Wales.

[1] The Suffolk and Essex police forces used the site on an ad hoc basis in 2007.

[2] In Arthur Ransome's books We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea and Secret Water, the character Commander Walker is an officer stationed at Shotley.

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