CRIME WAVE IN BRITAIN
JUNIOR POLICE FORCE PROPOSED
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. April 22. The Attorney-General (Sir Hartley Shawcross) to-day proposed the formation of “teen-age’ 1 law enforcement squads in uniform to help check Britain’s growing crime wave. "That was the secret of the success of the Hitler Youth,” he said. The Nazi movement was “a damnable organisation.” but the love of uniforms and the idea of doing something important could be developed for good ends. Sir Hartley Shawcross said he visualised the recruitment of youngsters over the school leaving age in “the junior section of the Special Constabulary to divert a lot of spirit of adventure into stopping crime instead of creating it.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26095, 24 April 1950, Page 7
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