POTITICS IN POLICE FORCE

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 12

POTITICS IN POLICE FORCE

SUPERINTENDENT ASKED TO RESIGN. Ihe chief constable of Lincolnshire has called for the resignation of Superintendent W. 0. AVoolnough, of Spalding, because he wrote asking the three candidates in the Holland-'With-Boston division in the recent Parliamentary election whether they, favoured the Desborough scale of police pay and pensions. Superintendent Woolnough’s retirement takes effect from December 31st, and in the meantime Inspector Gostick, of Donington, has been placed in charge of the division. The superintendent is stated to have circulated the candidates replies among the members of the police force under his command. Local opinion generally is that tlio nature of the offence did not warrant the severity of the punishment imposed, but according to police regulations, no appeal can be made. Superintendent Woolnough’s retirement means that there will be four living superannuated superintendents from the Spalding division, drawing between them pensions totalling £IOOO. BALKAN WAR-SPARK SOFIA UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Martial law was recently declared in Sofia; an eight o’clock curfew was imposed ; and all restaurants and theatres are closed. This action follows outbreaks of revolt in the south-west of the country. The most sensational incident was the seizure of the town of Kustendil, 100 miles from Sofia, by a band of Macedonians, who demand autonomy for Macedonia, and who took this method of protest against the Premier’s promise to Jugo-Slavia to stamp out the movement. The coup was speedily checked by troops, who recaptured Kustendil. To avoid possible dangers, the Government removed the ex-Ministers who were tried for treason to the old Turkish prison at Croumen, near the Black Sea. BAFFLING BURGLARS NEW WAY OF MAKING SAFES. How modern safe burglars are baffled was described by Mr JtCtmory Chubb, of the famous aaf©-manufacturing firm, in a paper read before the Royal Society of Arts. “No secrets are given away,” he 6aid, “when I tell you that attacks made with the help of jemmies, wedges, and drills are out of date as far as modern security is concerned.” Modern safes, he continued, are built with the strongest protecting plates inside instead of on the surface, so that as the. attack ( proceeds the difficulties increase,-the. .burglar’s area of operation diminishes, and his field of vision becomes less.

' Aa regards strong rooms, the walls consist of two independent steel or armour-plate walls the space between being filled up with a special mixture of armed or reinforced concrete. Butthe weakness of all such rooms is tho door, and in this Mr Chubb claims to have advanced one step towards the ideal door that shall afford genuine protection. It is exceptionally strong, and there is an electric apparatus, which giveis an alarm if the door is penetrated.