LONDON POLICE PRAISED

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1929, Page 7

LONDON POLICE PRAISED

FRENCH PREFECT’S VISIT.

M. Chiappc, Prefect of the Paris Police, who was recently iu London for a. week, partly on holiday and partly to study the methods of the Metropolitan Police Force, has a deep admiration for the work carried out by Viscount Byng. “We in Paris,, he said in an interview, “have an intense admiration for Lord Byng. We. have not forgotten him as a. soldier in France, and now we are watching him with extreme interest in his task of making London night life and the London police force the cleanest in the world.”

M. Chiappe remarked that he hoped to learn much from Lord Byng’s methods by which he had instilled a cheerful discipline in his force. Already he had noted the keen way in which they carried out their duties, and, above all, their competence and skill in dealing with the traffic. M. Chiappe took the .opportunity of discussing with Lord Byng methods by which a better system can be evolved of dealing with the international crook. It whs expected that they would also meet in conference Herr Zorgcibel, the head of the Berlin police, in order to bring about a closer relationship between the three police forces.

Having spent the morning at Scotland Yard, where he met the police chiefs, and was shown through the various branches associated with criminal investigation, M. Chiappe was now bent on seeing the London police for himself. “I shall just stroll along your clean streets,” he remarked, “and watch your so good-tempered police at work. Perhaps I shall have a chat with some of them, and learn a few secrets in that way.” While at Scotland Yard, M. Chiappe was shown the “Black Museum,” which contains gruesome. relics • of notorious criminals, and which only distinguished people are now allowed to see. He also examined the elaborate system of finger-print identification and photographs in the Criminal Record Office. Later, he had a conference with Lord Byng.

Wreaths were laid hy M. Chiappe on the police memorial in the main hall at Scotland Yard; at the foot of the cenotaph, and on the tomb of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey. The visitor was also present at the opening of the new police club at Tmber Court.