BETTER POLICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 111, 13 May 1931, Page 2

BETTER POLICE

LONDON, March 4. Sir Leonard Dunning, reporting on j county and borough police in England and Wales, and suggesting the institution of a police college, said: “Generally speaking, this country ; lags behind in the organised collection ' and use of the experience of others and j in the adaptation of science and mod ' ern mechanism to police purposes. “Whether a vacancy in the higher ranks is filled 1,. promotion or by appointment from some other field of emi ploymcm, there is too much of experi- ;• ment about the selection. Alany a man ! chosen turns out well—maybe because j of. may be in spite of his antecedents; , others turn out indifferently or badly, j “It is too much to hope chat the ! yearly return from a police college of some fifty men, definitely trained in I the spirit of these ideas, will stiffen the j service by traditions such as have built I up reputations elsewhere? ' “It should, for instance, be unnecessary to refer year after year to the j degrading effect of tips on a body of j men who aspire to have their occupaI lion regarded as a profession, and to the far worse practices to which tips j may and do lead; but this necessity still exists and will exist so long as the popular-idea that there is no harm in tipping a policeman is kept alive by the still too ready acceptance of the proffered tip. ’ f