The Month in Retrospect
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6403700204 |
| Published date | 01 February 1964 |
| Date | 01 February 1964 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Estimated expenditure for the Bedfordshire standing joint committee for the
coming financial year willbe reduced from £1,168,487 to £983,561. The reason?
Luton's anticipated county borough status from April 1 •
•.
Police at Molesey
(Surrey) are asking bicycle owners to make a note of their vehicles' serial num-
bers, in view of a large number of cycle thefts in the area, to trace the owners
when the cycles are recovered • • . Preston borough police is planning to establish
its own frogmen's
unit.
..
Miss Muriel Nelson has been a policewoman with
Lancashire county constabulary for 22 years, but has never worn uniform, never
made an arrest and never appeared in court. For most of the period, she has been
secretary to the chief superintendent in charge of the county's traffic and com-
munications department, although before the introduction of uniformed women
police In 1951, she was occasionally employedon special C.I.D. duties
...
For the first time in its history, the Cambridgeshire police force is to have
cadets •
..
Lancashire county constabulary are contemplating the use of Lotus
Cortinas specially modified for police work •
..
Bedfordshire standing joint
committee, subject to the approval of the Home Secretary, is to reimburse a
police constable the sum of £200 agreed damages which he paid followinga county
court action, to a youth he had inadvertently struck over the eye with a truncheon
•
••
Cambridgeshire police force isto havean estimated expenditure of £278,840
for the next financial
year-an
increase of £8,561 on the current figure
.•.
Warwickshire and Coventry police forces, from the beginning of the year, invite
drivers and riders of motor vehicles involved in accidents resulting in personal
injury to help into research into the circumstances and prevention of accidents.
Drivers are asked to give details of their driving experience, the nature of the
journey, and whether they are using safety equipment.
..
Sabre, an Alsatian
with the Gloucester police force, and now
"top
dog " of the force, was once a
stray from a dog's home
...
Worcester city watch committee are to strongly resist the amalgamation of the
city force with the Worcestershire county constabulary.
.•
The authorized
establishment of the Leicester city force is to be increased by two sergeants and
26 constables as from April 1 next •
.•
The chief constable of Lancashire has
submitted a report to the county's education committee to the effect that the
chief cause of accidents to children on pedal cycles is disregard for the Highway
Code .
..
The chief constable of Coventry has stated that radar speed meters
on a main road, over a period of 30 minutes, found that approximately 50 per cent.
of the traffic exceeded the speed limit, some vehicles by a very large margin . . •
Los Angeles police stored several hundred pounds of marijuana and other narcotic
drugs in the city's Hall of Justice as evidence for pending cases. Mice in the
room became addicts, and so bold as a result of the drugs that they are now seen
in the daytime . . .
A police officer at Swindon found footprints on the bonnet, roof and boot of a
car. Upon investigation, a student admitted responsibility, saying,
"We've
had
enough of these cars running overmen, it is about time wehad a man running over
a
car."
Subsequently he was fined £5.
56 Fehruary 1964
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