Mr Raymond Cole

I joined the Metropolitan Police on 28th April 1969 and went to the Hendon Training School for the initial 13 weeks training. I was put into a room with one other recruit whom I had never met before. After a few days of getting to know each other, we started to exchange our background history. I told him that my wife( girlfriend at the time) went to a school in South London called Singlegate Secondary Modern. He told me that his wife also went to that school and in fact sat next to my wife and were in fact the best of friends throughout their school years. We all remained good friends and they came to my wedding. Another incident occured a few years later. I was stationed at Epsom Police Station and my wife and I went on holiday to a remote greek island. The resort we stayed in had only a few apartments. We arrived late on a Saturday night and went straight to the apartment. In the morning I woke early and wandered down to the village to get some breakfast and watch the fishing boats come in. As I rounded a corner the first person I saw getting off one of the boats, was my Chief Superintendent and his wife. Needless to say, I invited them both back to my apartment for a cooked breakfast and after that I just couldn't put a foot wrong.