ENGLISH POLICE ENQUIRY

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1928, Page 2

ENGLISH POLICE ENQUIRY

Australian Press Assn.—United Service LONDON, Aug. 14. Satisfaction is expressed over the personnel of the Police Commission, of which a good deal will probably ho heard later. The non-political members who are not members of the House of Commons, include one moderate representative of the workers, and two women. Another member, Lord Ebbishain, was formerly Sir Rowland Blades. Poole, is the head of Lewis and Lewis’s, solicitors. Mi Pick is managing director of the London Underground Railways and the General Omnibus Coy. Mr Brownlie is the President of the Engineering Union. The terms of reference are considered to be wide enough to include all of the issues raised in the Savidge case. Other terms are to consider the general flowers and duties of the police in -England and Wales in investigating crimes and offences, including the functions of the Director of (Public Prosecutions and of the police respectively; also to inquire as to the practice followed in the iilteirognting and taking of statements from persons interviewed in the course of the investigation of crime; and -further to report as to whether sueh powers and duties are properly executed with a regard For the rights and liberties of the subject, in the: interests of justice, and with observance of the Judge’s rules both in the letter and in the spirit. “The Commissioner is to make recommendations in that connection. The Daily Telegraph says : Both the terms and the names promise an inqnii-v which will come to grips with the causes of the recent troubles and will help to restore the confidence of the public. Nothing has caused so min (h uneasiness as the allegation that the third Degree methods have been introduced since “the war. It may not be easy to mark the front id where the police zeal in the detection of crime violates the fundamental principles of individual rights and liberty, but. the public will insist that such a lino shall lie drawn.