DON’TS FOR DETECTIVES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 November 1937, Page 3

DON’TS FOR DETECTIVES

| SCOTLAND YARD’S 42 POINTS i WARNING AGAINST OVERFI! IE N DUN ESS | (By Air Mail—From a Special Correspondent) LONDON. 16tli October. Scotland Yard has issued its 42 Articles ; lor the guidance of detectives. One point. : lias been nmeli criticised. It reads: j ‘ Don't get friendly with your neighbour. I One day you may have to arrest him." Mr Jack Hayes, (lie ex-M.l*. who was ja l one time a policeman, thinks that this is taking matters to the extreme. "It has obviously been drafted by one o* the new 'super-men' who do not know the conditions under which detectives i work” lie said this week. "There would be no detectives, or at. least no successful detectives, if Ihe men lacked the capacity lor making friends, "A.C. 1.1). man makes enemies easily enough. If the detective is to regard everyone as a potential criminal it is going lo lie a rotten oiilluuk for the rest of the community. There is no reason at all for a man to prejudice his neighbour. “I doubt whetliei this distinction will he seriously received in the service. ll i may raise a broad grin, lull that is all.” , Among other ‘'don'ts" included in the list are : Don't let your wife or sweetheart get into the habit oi waiting for you outside the station at night. It might prevent you gelling into a good ease, because most of them happen at night, j Don't talk about your thrilling cases j when investigating crime. Victims don't | want, you to tell them you are a wonderful detective unless you can do something j for (hem. | Don't wait for information to conic i along. There are plenty of thieves to be e-aught at all times. Don’t enter public houses with witnesses. Von may hear of it in a way you have reason to regret. Don't forget to complete your answer with bit, wlietlicr you like the solicitor j or not. Don’t be more than an arm's length away from prospective prisoner when interviewing him. Three men were shot dead, including liie detective, when a suspect was being interviewed. This was because a table separated suspect anil detect ive. The list, includes a suggestion for a detective's dress. ‘‘Nothing" it. says “beats a dark brown suit., stiff white collar and business sailor knot lie."