AN IMPROVED FORCE.

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 10

AN IMPROVED FORCE.

Mr. Lansbury (Soc., Bow and Bromley) recalled that when Lord Byng was appointed Chief Commissioner there was much talk in the country 'and in tho House about Scotland Yard and reorganisation. The committee were entitled to know what had happened, what was the cleaning up which had been done, and what was the reorganisation to prevent tho scandals which had happened in the past being.repeated. He entered his protest against Lord Trenchard's appointment, and expressed his hope that when another Government was in office a civilian, and, if possible, one of the officers from the service, should be given this position. Sir Herbert Samuel said that as a result of Lord Byng's administration tho situation in the force was far bettor than it was a few years ago. Dr. Salter asked tho Home Secretary to do something towards the humanisation of prisons, particularly where young offenders were concerned. The experiment made at Wakefield and Nottingham of paying 'wages to prisoners had been eminently successful. » Mr. LansbuTy said he did not pose as a martyr-as far as his prison life was concerned, but what pained him-in prison was being put in a cage to receive his wife When she was. visiting him. Holloway was bad, but Pentonville was a horrible place. Ho described the Church of England service there,: as he witnessed it, as blasphemy. Ho suggested that the Osborno Naval College, which was lying idle, might well bo used for ; young people, kept there, not quite as prisoners, but- wearing ordinary clothes and carrying, oil all sorts of occupations from, gardening to farming.