A training film is made at Perranporth with the Cornwall County Constabulary at a time when surf life saving was in its infancy and fell to the most able in the community, in other words the police. From the fifties onwards Australians and Americans were taken on as lifeguards and surf lifesavers because they could work and teach surfing and this helped to develop the sport. Ironically as surfing became a major sport in Australia numbers taking up surf life saving dropped.