British police look to young, university graduate recruits

Burnley, England

FRANCESCA Wheatley does not seem like a police officer, at least not to those around her.

"People think I'm too nice," the police constable, 21, said, a touch sheepishly. They expect, she said, "a middle-aged man". But Constable Wheatley, slight of build and with an easy smile, is exactly the kind of officer her superiors want to recruit.