Quarterly Commentary
| Published date | 01 April 1946 |
| Date | 01 April 1946 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X4601900201 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
VOL.
XIX,
No.
2
POLICE JOURNAL
APRIL-JUNE
1946
Quarterly Commentary
CHIEF
CONSTABLES'
JUBILEE
CONFERENCE
THE jubilee conference of the Chief Constables' (Cities and
Boroughs) Association of England and Wales, to be held in Brighton
in June, is a notable event. Founded in 1896 by a small number of
Chief Constables, who must have seen in the invention of the internal
combustion engine the inevitable widening of the scope and range of
police duties, and certainly an extension in the field of criminal activity,
the Association has grown to be a responsible and important consulta-
tive body.
Its
annual conferences before the war were noted for the
opportunities afforded for the exchange of views on mechanical and
scientific developments, both in the investigation of crime and in the
economy of police equipment and transport.
Not
the least of the virtues
of these conferences of the Chief Constables' Association is the presence
of representatives of the borough police authorities, whose annual con-
ference, arranged by the Police Committee of the Association of
Municipal Corporations, is held jointly with that of the Chief Con-
stables.
The
first post-war meeting at Brighton is the more noteworthy
in that the Chairmen of Watch Committees are holding their twenty-
first conference.
The
decision to celebrate the occasion by arranging a
Police Exhibition, to which attention was drawn at p. 79 of THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
for January-March 1946, is amply justified by the enthusiastic
response to the appeal for exhibits.
The
Home Secretary's foreword in
the Exhibition brochure and the promise of his personal attendance to
open the Exhibition indicate the interest and help of the Home Office.
The
growing impression that the Exhibition should become a founda-
tion for a central institution deserves full encouragement.
The
views of
our readers will be stimulated by the suggestions made in the article
which has been specially written for THE
POLICE
JOURNAL,
and which
appears at p. 116 of this number.
POLICE
DISTRICT
TRAINING
CENTRES
The
foundations of the edifice of post-war training for the police-
B 81
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