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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 7

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REVIEW IN THE COMMONS. * TRIBUTE TO POLICE. BY SIR JOHN SIMON. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 17, 11 a.m. RUGBY, July 16. In the House of Commons, the Home Secretary (Sir John Simon) touched upon a groat variety of subjects in reviewing the work of the Home Office, the vote for which he recalled having last presented in the House 20 years ago. Sir John spoke encouragingly of tho developments of methods of dealing with juvenile crime embodied in the recent legislation and extended by the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933. The Act strengthened the law for dealing with neglected children, and if the problem of neglect could be adequately dealt with the amount of juvenile delinquency would certainly be diminished. Referring to the reorganisation of the police, Sir John Simon paid a tribute to Lord Trenchard, Chief Commissioner of Police. lliere were 180 separate police forces in England and Wales, and it was important to get close co-operation between these forces for many purposes. A great deal was being done to enlist science on the side of crime fighting. The Jubilee review of the police forces by the King next Sunday was a reminder to the British public or the reason it had to bo proud of this great civil force, which had won for the British policeman a reputation abroad as well as at Home for coolness, courtesy, and good temper. Sir John Simon mentioned tho figures and annual report of tho Chief Inspector of Factories bearing on the extent of accidents among young persons, and said the solution was to he found in education in safety among boys and girls as a result of voluntary efforts undertaken with the goodwill of tho employers, workers, and others.