LONDON'S POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 8

LONDON'S POLICE.

POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE.

Perhaps the one thing that oversea visitors to England are unanimous / about (Bays our London correspondent)- is - the London policeman. The Cape Mounted Police, the Irish Armed Constabulary, and the North-West Mounted Police of Canada have taken turns in being regarded as the finest body of men in the world, but this has never interfered with a ;«■ universal regard for the London policemen as the most popular body of men with the millions who visit London. They have had a particularly strenuous time this year. When it opened they were wrestling with various foreign outrages in the East End, from which they passed cheerfully to the guarding of many sovereigns, the regulating of many crowds for the Coronation, and the batoning of many strikers in England- and Wales. Tears have been shed over their being so defiled. One ardent admirer wrote to the press - bitterly - bewailing the policy which transported the. metropolitan police from the streets of London to those of Tonypandy and Llanellv, " where they; wevb pelted 'with mud. ~ There has been a question for some time as to how the men should be paid for the immense amount of overtime and extra work they have undergone this year, and the public is no very well pleased that instead of giving a bonus, the authorities have decidted on granting an all-round increase of about five per cent, in pay. It is said that one reason for this step is a sudden difficulty in getting. men for* the force. The Commissioner has "actually had to advertise for recruits.