SCOTLAND YARD

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 9

SCOTLAND YARD

ARRAIGNED IN PUBLIC FREEDOM OF CITIZENS METHODS IMPUGNED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian Press Association. LONDON, 10th May. The world-famous Scotland Yard is virtually in the dock before public opinion. The whole nation is disturbed at tho sensation charges against it. Though it-' is universally admitted that London's policemen are the finest body of men in the world, Scotland Yard, as the outcome of several recent events, is definitely suspect, and there is a disturbing feeling throughout England

that there is something '.amiss iii its methods contrary to the British sense of freedom and justice. The entire Press is agreed that the charges involve the freedom of citizens and must be judged from that aspect. They emphatically declare that the inquiry must be public and comprehensive, and in no sense a r.etnal of Miss Savage and Sir Leo Chiozza Money," who were honourably acquitted. The police action in taking, the ■girl from her work is only one issue. They, declare that even Miss Savage's statement is denied in toto. No amount of official denials can clear Scotland Yard of the great and growing cloud of suspicion hanging ver it. The Press asks for how !ong. and in what number of cases, Scotland Yard ias been thus behaving, for' it is inconceivable that Miss Savage's is the only case. The three principal officials concerned are Sir William .Horwood, Commissioner of Police; Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions; and Chief-Inspector Collins, of the Scot-1 land Yard Criminal Investigation Department. _