CRIME IN BRITAIN

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 8

CRIME IN BRITAIN

ACTIVITIES OF THE POLICE. GREAT CONTEST OP WITS, A great contest of wits is being waged between the master minds of Scotland Yard and the modern scientific criminals, who have lately achieved a startling run of successes, writes a Lond® correspondent. Criminologists have been busy advising new plans and methods to deal with the present outbreak of lawlessness, and it now appears that a satisfactory plan of campaign has bepn evolved. This fact was admitted by the Commissioner. Sir Novil Macready, but he declined to give any details of his scheme. “I qnite agree,” he said, “that the modern burglar isn’t the same pigheaded fellow that Bill Sikes was in Dickens’ time.” Complete returns of criminal cases during the last year were not yet available, he said, and in their absence he -was not prepared to say that there had been any substantial increase in lawlessness,. Daring the years of the war there had been a marked decline, and, although the figures wore now on the increase, he did not think they had risen much above the 1918 level