CRIME-FREE CORONATION

Evening Star, Issue 22475, 21 October 1936, Page 9

CRIME-FREE CORONATION

WATCH ON UNDESIRABLES It is safe to say that the criminal population all over the world has never been so closely watched m it will be in. the weeks before the King’s Coronation next May (says the London ‘Daily Telegraph’,). Police chiefs of many countries—in New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Montreal—are being asked by Scotland Yard to keep a close watch on tha movements of known criminals or undesirables If any succeed in landing in this country, hoping to make big hauls from the hundreds of thousands of visitors to London, they will bo closely watched. Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, is determined that next year’s great celebrations shall be as free from crime as patience,, knowledge, and organisation can make them. To this end conferences of senior detective officers are taking place almost daily at Scotland Yard. One of the Commissioner’s chief anxieties is that overseas visitors and others shall suffer as little as possible from the activities of confidence tricksters, pickpockets, hotel thieves, and swindlers of all kinds. Every day, as the crowds arrive, dozens of detectives will patrol the main West End thoroughfares, watching for faces known to them. Hotel lounges may have Scotland Yard men on watch. Railway stations, docks, and restaurants will come under the eyes of men responsible for certain areas. Extra special branch men will be on duty at all airports and docks, watching for undesirables. The three men chiefly responsible for Scotland Yard’s Coronation plans are Chief Constable A. Canning, head of the special branch; Assistant Commissioner H. Alknr Trip, C.T.D., and Chief Constable Honvell, head of tiny traffic department.