BRITISH CITIZEN FORCES
GOVERNMENT’S PLANS (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, December 11. Peace-time trained citizen forces are proposed as part of the civil defence services in a Government memorandum on the proposed reorganisation of these services which has been sent to the local authorities for consideration.
The memorandum says that the services and their equipment should be built up gradually over a number of years so as to avoid the hasty improvisation of ill-equipped, ill-trained forces when war threatens. The proposals are only part of a comprehensive plan. When the over-all plan is sufficiently developed the Government intends to introduce new legislation. The memorandum says that every able-bodied man and woman would be required to assist in relief and restoration work after a major attack on a large populated centre. Communities would be organised into the following categories: (1) a highly mobile, well-trained full-time force available for use in any part of Britain; (2) local mobile forces, with a full-time nucleus but mostly part-time; (3) an instructed citizen force in which everyone could be able to take simple measures to protect himself, his family, or his neighbours.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25365, 12 December 1947, Page 6
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