LONDON POLICE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 7

LONDON POLICE.

; ROYAL COMMISSION ON CHARGES. SATISFACTORY REPORT. (BY. TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) ' .■■■ (Rec. July 1,'9.501,p.m.). London, July 1. Tho. Royal Commission which was appointed to. inquire- into, charges against tho Met-, ropolitnn Polico reports that on tho wholo tho polico have discharged thoir duties honestly and with discretion and efficiency. . Most of the allegations against them wero not proved. In tho Dalgety case the arrest was-justified, and tho conduct of tho polico was discreet and correct. Tho Commission apportion blame in somo of the eases investigated. SMALL PERCENTAGE OF DISMISSALS. Tho Royal Commission on tho Discipline of tho Metropolitan Police was presided over by. Sir D. Brynaiiior ,Jones, M.P., and, has been sitting 1 for somo time. In'a speech in October, Mr. R. S. Jackson, M.P., said he did not think the public properly appreciated tho duties., or functions of the force, and ho asked, them to suspend.judgment, at least until the report of tlio Police Commission had been presented. Last year between 3000 and 4000 officers were injured while on duty, but they had received no appreciation of their seivico Notwithstanding tho temptations, difficulties, and discouragements, '. only twenty T eight. men out of 14,0W) wero dismissed in' .190G, which showed that the bulk of the men performed their duties in a proper manner. Mr. Baggallay, metropolitan polico magistrate, said he was one of the-poor wretches who had to. sit ill various police courts at. certain times of. tho year, and ho was satisfied that the police, performed then- duties' properly and gave their ovidenco fairly. Ho found in every district'to which he-went that the police were an \ excellent body of men, and although in the courts tho 'truthfulness of a constable was often challenged, it was not often successfully challenged. Tho men showed great earo and accuracy in making their notes, <lnd, whatever was said by somo people, tho police were not condemned by tho great mass of tho population. They were bound to find grumblers everywhere, but lie thought it was almost a universal opinion that, the metropolitan polico t'orco was the finest .body of men in the world. They were always ready to assist in accident or. disaster, and in this direction people could look to them with confidence.