The first number contains fourteen articles covering 170 pages. Under "Police Administration"
Sir Edward Troup, formerly. Under-Secretary of State in the Home Ofice, discusses the growth of modern police forces in Britain fond other countries. Quoting from Mr, Fosdick, the great © American alice authority, his remarks on the police system in the United States are most interesting. The lack of ce-ordination in police work, he says, prevents a picture of local autonomy and democratic control gone mad. In the State of Mi sachusetts alone there are some 400 or 600 independent police areas. the populous urban area of which Boston is the centre, and within a radius of 12 miles, there are no Jess than 39 towns and cities with 39 distinct and separate police forces "each with exclusive jurisdiction lover a portion of the feld and each independent of any common superior suthosity." The writer of these notes well remembers the same complaint being made to him by Mr. Richant Enright when the latter was Commissioner of Police of New York City about seven years ago.
'A clear account of the genesis, sin and. scope of the Police Fed: eration system of England and Wales is given in an article by a Constable of the Metropolitan Police who ix Chairman of the Joint Central Comittee. This Federation lowes its being to the crisis in police affairs which developed during the War and culminated in 1918. The causes were mainly economic although there were other contri but ary factors of a less material character. Then came the borough Commission which resulted in the constitution by Act of Parlia. [ment of the Police Federation which has brought peace to the police forces of Great Brit The Indian Govt. Silenced In an article on the Iraq Police an amusing story is told about the appointment of a British Officer as Commissioner of Police for the occupied territories a week after the capture of Basrah. The appointment did. not pass unnoticed at Delhi and the' Indian Government telegraphed privately demurring to the title of Commissioner which in India is applied only to the Chief in Presidency towns. In reply the Indian Authorities were reminded that the appointment was made by the General Offer Commanding in exercise of his creative discretion and they, were invited to refer to Genesis If. 19. No earlier or higher authority could be quoted even by the Government of India fand the matter was not pursued farther.
One of the greatest problems with which all police forces have to contend, namely the matter of pro sections, is ably discussed by Sir Leonard Dunning, who was formerly for many years Chief Constable at Liverpool and is now Inspector fedge|of Constabulary in England and Wales. He calls attention to the ich} difMeulties with which the police are confronted and he emphasizes that wise counsels in recent years have secured a better recognition of the idea that successful prosecution is not in itself the and to be Sought, but that it is merely one of the' means of securing: the real purpose of the police service, name. ly, the prevention of crime.
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