POLICING PALESTINE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 7

POLICING PALESTINE

KXTENSIVE RECRUITING l ßy Air Mail—Own Correspondent] LONDON, 3rd November. It is the Government’s intention, once our considerable military forces now in that country have done their work of restoring law and order, to recruit extensively for the Palestine Police Force. So at any rate I gather from a wellinformed quarter. And, if and when the military arm can be withdrawn in part to hand over to the arm of the civil law. the Palestine Police will be largely if not exclusively a British force. There are obvious difficulties in the wav of recruiting either Jews £>r Arabs, more especially since they must needs be armed, for this particular work. At present we are utilising Jewish policemen so far as possible only in exclusively Jewish localities. The Palestine Police should, therefore, hereafter oiler an attractive career to eligible young men of sound physique and adventurous disposition. Because, even though present troubles die down or are settled by sagacious policy, police patrol in Palestine is likely for some time to come to be rather more exciting than duck shooting. The pity is that most of our Great War braves are now getting rather old for a job which might have been right up their street.