CRIME FREEDOM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 October 1936, Page 9

CRIME FREEDOM.

LONDON POLICE ALERT. The Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (Sir Philip Game) is determined that the Coronation celebrations next year shall be as free from crime as patience, knowledge, and organisation can make them, and to this end, conferences of senior detective officers are taking place almost daily at Scotland Yard. The criminal population of the world will never have been so closely watched as it will be in the weeks before the King’s Coronation on May 12. Police chiefs of many countries have been asked by Scotland Yard to keep a close watch on the movements of known criminals or undesirables. It any succeed in landing in England, hoping to make big hauls from the hundreds of thousands of visitors to London, they will be closely watched. One of Sir Philip Game’s chief anxieties is that overseas visitors and others shall suffer as little as pos sible, from the activities of confidence tricksters, pickpockets, hotel thieves, and swindlers of‘-all kinds. Every day, as the crowds arrive, dozens of plainclothes men will patrol the main West End thoroughfares, watching for faces known to them. Hotel lounges may have Scotland Yard men on the watch. It has been suggested that the King should head a Royal procession along the Thames during the Coronation celebrations. A number of Thames watermen have approached the King’s Bargeinaster (Mr J. T. Phelps) on the matter.