IMPORTANT BRITON

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945, Page 7

IMPORTANT BRITON

ARRESTED IN BERLIN

LONDON, December 20. The British authorities on December 15 arrested the Deputy Provost Marshal, Lieut.-Colonel T. C. Irvine, "Number One Policeman in Berlin," says the "Daily Mail's" correspondent. The charges against Lieut.-Colonel Irvine, who is confined under close arrest, to his private quarters in the British zone, have not yet been disclosed. _ _ , Meanwhile, widespread investigation is being made into suspected violations of Army regulations by officers stationed in Berlin, the correspondent says. Lieut.-Colonel Irvine was a member of the Bth Army, who served with distinction in the desert. He is one of the best known and most popular officers in the Berlin garrison, and has commanded for the last five months the British military police force in Berlin. He led all the major raids on the notorious German black market in the Tiergarten. On December 15 he used tanks and armoured cars manned by Hussars in a round-up which led to many important arrests.