Correspondence
| Published date | 01 December 1967 |
| Date | 01 December 1967 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X6704001208 |
| Subject Matter | Correspondence |
ing and preventive detention of the 1948 Act, will fail, but
there is a strong possibility that many of the trends will be
followed up by further steps along the same lines. The most
obvious keynote of the penological provisions is the desire
to keep offenders out of prison, partly on good penological and
psychological criteria and partly from a desire to solve the
overpopulation of our prisons. These aims will clearly have
some effect on future criminal patterns. It may go too far in
not removing from criminal temptation those who may be said
to be likely to commit further crime. Only time will show whether
it is possible to develop more techniques to recognize the good
risk and the bad.
It
must finally be emphasized that practically every issue
raised in this article, and these are by no means a complete
survey of the provisions of the Act, is the subject of detailed
provisions, or of power to make subsequent rules and regulations.
The aim has been to indicate the areas where detailed reference
to the Act will be essential for a long time until the new law
and procedures have become really familiar.
women and the new designs for
male officers have had an airing at
the Federation conference at Scar-
borough
and
before the A.C.P.O.
Now
would
seem to be a good
time to have a fresh
look
at the
mechanics of the issue of these new
uniforms as and when they are ap-
proved and introduced. Isuppose
the majority of forces go through
the old routine of putting
out
tenders for the supply of uniform.
The
next stage usually consists of
having parades at which the suc-
cessful contractor's tailor hastily
measures long lines of police officers
called in to selected stations. In-
variably the tailor has one eye on
the watch for he
must
hasten on to
the next station on his itinerary to
maintain his programme. In due
course large wicker hampers of
crushed
but
expensive garments
arrive
and
one of the Divisional
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"
IF
IT
FITS
YOU,
YOU
MUST
BE
DEFORMED"
To the Editor
of
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
Dear
Sir,
There
are still a few of us
around
who remember the old war-time
jokes
about
service clothing. Sad
to think
that
so
many
modern
young
policemen suffer the same condi-
tions when it comes to measurement
for, issue and use of police clothing.
I was surprised
that
the
report
on
"Police
Manpower,
Equipment
and
Efficiency" showed so little interest
in the issue
and
supply of police
clothing.
The
working
party
on
equipment
made
some general re-
marks
about
bulk
buying and
that
was that. Perhaps they felt inhibited
by the knowledge
that
another
body
was concurrently conducting an-
other
examination of the design and
quality of uniform police clothing.
Again . . . since the publication of
the working
party
reports we have
had
much
national publicity for the
new designs suggested
for
Police-
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