The Police and the Law
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4802100303 |
| Published date | 01 July 1948 |
| Date | 01 July 1948 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
THE
POLICE
AND
THE
LAW
the Joint Central Committee will need the support of every branch
board, and in
turn
every branch board will need the support of its
constituents.
The
opportunity is there; the Service must
not
fail to take advan-
tage of it. '
THE
POLICE
COLLEGE
In
our last issue we indicated
that
this title would make many
appearances. Since then much progress has been made, and by the
time this appears in print the first course will be in progress.
Much
depends on this stage in the history of
the
enterprise. Great care has
been exercised in
the
preparation, and the best brains in
the
land have
contributed.
The
Service will note with approval
that
the
Commandant
has demonstrated his appreciation of 'his lack of police knowledge by
calling to his aid the whole of the chief constables of the country.
The
senior officers' course of
194-8
was mainly devoted to the review and
approval of
the
syllabus for the first course.
It
is inevitable
that
even this
will be changed in
the
light of the experience gained as
the
work pro-
ceeds,
but
in its present state it is most impressive.
Those who have been selected to be members of
the
first course are
making history, and
the
whole of
the
Service will wish them well and
watch their progress with keen interest.
The
most promising feature
of the enterprise is its acceptance by the Service it is intended to serve.
The
Police and the Law
THE
RECEIVER OF THE
METROPOLITAN
POLICE
DISTRICT
THE legal position and functions of the Receiver of
the
Metro-
politan Police District are not, perhaps, widely known outside
the
London area.
In
the recent case of the Receiver of the Metropolitan
Police District v. Tatum
(194-8,
1
All
E.R. 612)
the
Court was called
upon to interpret
the
extent of the Receiver's powers to sue in
the
courts to recover expenses arising
out
of an accident to a police officer.
The
defendant through his negligence damaged the officer's motor-
cycle which he was riding at the time of
the
accident and also seriously
injured the officer, whose employment in the Police had to be ter-
minated as a consequence.
The
question was whether or
not
the
Receiver was the right person to sue
the
defendant for the damage to
the motor-cycle, the costs of hospital treatment of
the
injured officer,
and
the
pay and allowances which
the
Receiver paid to
the
officer
while ill.
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