Changes Expected at Scotland Yard

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 12

Changes Expected at Scotland Yard

DEPUTY-CHIEF RETIRING LONDON, June 2. Important changes aro expected to take place at Scotland Yard early next year in the ranks of senior officers. Colonel the Hon. Maurice Drummond, who held many staff appointments in the Army and Royal Air Force before being brought to Scotland Yard by Viscount Trenchard us his personal assistant, is understood to be retiring in the spring. He is at present Deputy-Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, and played a big part in the reorganisation of the force under tho Trenchard regime. His successor will be .Sir Norman Kendal, now one of the foui* Assistant Commissioners and head of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Special Branch. Sir Norman practised as a barrister on the Northern Circuit before tho war. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919. His legal knowledge has been invaluable to the Commissioner in many problems of administration and crime investigation. Sir Norman’s place is expected to be taken by Mr R. M. Howe, who was brought from the office of the Director of Public- Prosecutions seven years ago, and since then has had varied experience of police work in the East End, the West End and ut Scotland Yard. As Deputy-Assistant Commissioner of the Criminal Investigation Department for some months he has been working closely with Sir Norman Kendal to obtain a “glooming” for hi* new post. He has investigated person ally more than one murder iu tht Metropolitan area, as well as Irish Republican Army outrages.