SCOTLAND YARD METHODS UNDER MICROSCOPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 10

SCOTLAND YARD METHODS UNDER MICROSCOPE.

ENGLAND BELIEVES SOMETHING IS WRONG. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONtMDN, May 19. The world famous Scotland Yard is Virtually in the dock before public opinion. The whole nation is disturbed at the sensational charges against it. Though it is universally admitted that London policemen are the finest bod\ of men in the world, Scotland Yard, as the outcome of several recent events, is definitely suspect, and there is a disturbing feeling throughout England that there is something amiss in its methods, contrary to the British sense of freedom and justice. The entire Press is agreed that the Hyde Park charges involve the freedom of citizens and must be judged from that aspect. The newspapers emphatically declare that the inquiry must be public and comprehensive, and in no sense a re-trial of Miss Savage and Sir Leo Chiozza Money, who were honourably acquitted. The police action in taking the girl from work is only one issue. They declare that even Miss Savage's statement has been denied in toto. No amount of official denials can clear Scotland Yard of the great and growing cloud of suspicion hanging over it.

The Press asks for how long and in what number of cases Scotland Yard has been thus behaving, for it is incon ceivable that Miss Savage’s is the only case.

The three principal officials concerned are General Sir William Horwood, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions, and Chief Inspector Collins, of the Scotland Y ard Criminal Investigation Department.— Australian Press Association.