The Month in Retrospect
| Published date | 01 June 1964 |
| Date | 01 June 1964 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6403700604 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
While Birmingham traffic had increased by 30 per cent., night road accidents
had increased by only 4.2 per cent. and deaths had decreased by 12 per cent.,
according to Chief Superintendent H. Palmer, of Birmingham city police,reporting
on the dipped headlights experiment •
••
The Staffordshire police force now
operates a special fleet of cars confined to criminal investigation. The force
acquired 13 extra cars for the service, their crews concentrating on dealing with
crimes, leaving the crewsof the existing fleet of patrol vehicles free to deal entirely
with traffic and accidents • . . Eight policemen at a new police station at Newton
Aycliffe, co. Durham, felt they were not getting enough callers from the town's
population of 15,000. As a result, the police station has been advertised in the
town's local news letter • . •
Children gather on the bridges of the M6 in some instances to throw stones at
cars travelling below, with consequent danger to motorists. The helicopter on
the motorway now speaks to the children by the public address system, warning
them of the dangers •
.•
In unsuccessfully opposing a proposal that Swansea
corporation should allow a police box in the garden at the foreshore, Blackpool,
an objector said that " Police boxes are too much of an advertisement, especially
for the criminal; everybody knew the police officer's movements," he said. For
the proposal, it was said that police boxes would play an important part in the
impending reorganization of the force •
..
The chairman of the Leicester city
watch committee recently complimented the town's chief constable, Mr. Robert
Mark, upon his annual report, and commented upon Mr.
Mark's
contributions
to the legal press.
"If
Mr.
Mark
had not chosen the police for his
career,"
he
said,
"he
could have reached quite dizzy heights in journalism" . • .
A man charged with drunkenness at Kingston-upon-Thames, in pleading guilty,
thanked the police
for"
being so
kind"
to him. He was fined £1 • . . A crime
prevention and juvenile liaison officer has taken up duties at Warrington. A con-
stable of the borough police force, his main task will be to keep children out of
juvenile courts and instil first precautions into the owners of business premises . . .
The new police station at Axminster, replacing one about 150 years old, was
opened recently. Together with three police houses, the final cost is expected to
be about £17,500
...
A woman at Sutton, Surrey, magistrates' court,
ona
parking
offence charge, said she objected to being called " dear " by the police constable
who had charged her. She said she was middle-aged, and expected the term
"Madam"
...
The first permanent system for the presentation of area traffic data in the United
Kingdom has been the subject for a contract awarded to Decca Radar, and will be
installed at Vauxhall Cross, London . . . Prince, a 24 year old Newcastle on Tyne
police horse, has been reprieved from being put downby the town's watch commit-
tee, and is to be retired to a farm belonging to the International League for the
Protection of Horses. He was thought to be the oldest police horse to be working
in the country • . . Halesworth police division has been presented with the Malster
trophy (a trophy awarded to the division with the best record of police work
throughout the year) by the acting chief constable of
Suffolk.
..
Wellington,
Shropshire, saw the opening of a police recruiting exhibition, the object of which
was to recruit some of the 180 men needed to police Dawley New Town in the near
future
.•.
The River Thames Society has proposed that the non-tidal reaches of the river
should have their own river police patrols. This proposal follows the increased
vandalism on the river.
259 June /964
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