POLICE ON TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 7

POLICE ON TRIAL.

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Scotland Yard At Bar Of PabHe Opinion. DEFINITELY SUSPECT. (Australian and NJL Frew Aaoetaita.); LONDON, May 20. The authorities of Scotland Yard are virtually in the dock before public opinion. The "whole nation is disturbed at the sensational charges against its administration. Although it is universally admitted that the London 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 Britain that there is something in 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 they must be judged from that aspect. They emphatically declare that the inquiry promised by the Home Office must be public and comprehensive, and in no sense a retrial of Miss Savage and Sir Leo Chiozza Money, who were honourably acquitted. The action of the

police in taking Miss Savage from her work to the Yard is only one issue. The papers say that even if Miss Savage's statement is denied in toto, no amount of official dairiafa can clear Scotland Yard of the great and growing cloud of suspicion that hangs over it.

The Press asks for how long and in what number of cases Scotland Yard has been thus behaving. It is inconceivable that the case erf Vi«g Savage is the only one. Three of the principal officials concerned are Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner of Police, Sir Archibald Bodkin, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr. G. Nicholle, the chief inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department.