Few police forces have as difficult task as that of the Palestine police for, ironical as it may deem, the country which gave the birth to the most beautiful and pacific religion the world has known is extraordinarily prolific in situations leading to trouble, Latest telegrams—from Palestine describe further riots tween Arabs and Jews necessitating strictest police measures for life in the Palestine police is no sinecure. Recruited originally from the Black and Tans in Ireland when Palestine came under the British mandate, the Palestine Police has been gradually transformed into a mixed force of about 3,000 men, of whom 700 are British, in command of Mr. R. G. B. Spicer, -who is Inspector-General of Police' and Prisons. The detachment of 700 men is Britain's Foreign Legion, It the phrase could be used, The men ore recruited for a two year term, undergoing training on the barrack square, live in barracks and patrol a beat of desert and city from the Mediterranean coast to Transjordania and from the Suez Canal to the French mandated territory of Lebanon, Public schoolboys, second mates without billets, youngsters attracted by adventure to the picturesque territories of the Near East are to be found in ranks of this unusual police force but whatever romance there is to be found is overshadowed by the hard life the men Ihave to lead to carry out their duties. This not a question of dock and passport duty at Haifa or Jaffa, or headquarters duty in Jerusalem. Mr. H. V. 'In The Steps of describes when he visited Petra, in' Transjordania, he was astonished one day to be confronted by a Palestine policeman in this inaccessible spot" bringing him a telegram. A more abiding impression of the ubiquity of this police force was gained by another traveller who Jsaw a young member of this force at! the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, balancing. precariously on the back legs of a chair outside the police box and reading the "Strand" magazine while two or three little children played in and out of the police box.
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