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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1949.

They Protect World's Property

The sea routes from the world's chief markets con-

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

verge upon the Port of Lon-, yet there were only 1,011 cases don, that great centre of of larceny reported to the Police commerce which stretches Involving goods to the value of £ 10,084 or £18,29 of which 26 miles from Tilbury to Tower Bridge and beyond. 55.8% was recovered, The ships of all nations,

Magnificent Record 24354 loaded with the produce of every land, nose their way through the swirling grey waters of the Thames and find their berths in one of the five groups of docks to the accompaniment of

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This is magnificent record, for not only were the losses due to pilferage small when pared with the vast quantities of goods Involved, but the recovery rate of stolen property is ex- A 20% rc- fraordinarily high.

to be covery rate is considered good by the best regulated police force's in the world.

Of the 1,011 ensis of larceny you only 205 remained unsolved. The would Port of London police made 824

If you had business with one

wherever of these ships,

the clocks you entered

find at the gale at-lesti-one-arvests, charged. 681 persons and

620 of these were convicteti, policeman silhouetted against 11

nekground of rumbling derricks Yet nowhere else in the world valuable mammoth warehouses, speeding can one see so much lorries, hissing ilyay cheiner property in so small an area, ap- ant moored vessels of every type areilly lo fasily accessible, and and size,

un easy prey for the thier.

As you approached you might well consider him to be just an

London

going other

policernan about his duty. scrutinising the vehicle leaving passes of every the docks, checking the load with n expert glance, and at the same time keeping a vigilant eye on the fhrung of steve-

hetero hourers, drivers, seamen,

clorca,

carenkses

the

تون

case

their

The man was charged and con- victed. It was a perfect of circumstårstial evidence, for through the dock gate is so great, the stolen property. was not in that it would be an impossible his possession. He left it on the task to make a detailed search of ship,

perhaps because he was to collect ench lorry leaving. The police, disturbed, or perhaps however,

virtue

their later. ot training and experience, are able

The PLA

Police have to tell by the appearance of the

School own Instruction

which vehicle whether the load looks to continually feeds new blood into

the Force, He

Hero unter be cerreel, and they do not hesi

to ure their

powers of spector Instructor and two Sci- search when

they have reason

geant Instructors, recruits under-

13 A go

week comprehensive able grounds for suspicion. Rea- sonable grounds for suspicion is

course in which the best up-to- a term which has wide implies- date methods are employed a tions covering a variety of things

museum, exhibits, photograples appearance from a guilty

and demonstrations, person to an unusual size cose for a certain type of goods.

of a

The work of the Constables at the gates is augmented by those

The

Wide Syllabus

T-

wide

on the beat; and although one syllabus from the duties of a

may spend hours in the docks policeman,

Covers course

n

Arst

aid and e finer points

detection

and seldom see a policeman,saving; to the their regular patrols of the quays crime prevention and and warehouses where

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cargoes with emphasis on the specint are being handlex act as a great, situations to be met within the deterrent to pilferage.

Port of London. The course con- cludes with lelike court scener in which actual magis rates take part

how- Mubile 1103 on his he will

Refresher courses are held at the school to maintain the high standard of efficiency associated with the Force,

In this article

has

eraphinsis been inid on the PLA Pollee prevention Force's efforts in the and detection of pilferage, Men- tion should be 34:le "f thel

record

breaking excellent down smuggling rings. They have made mure arrests in this sphere of activity than any other Police Force in the world!

The greatest deterrent, It is an even greater tempta- lion when so much has a high | ever, in the PLA Police

a policeman black market value in a Britain Squad. Once

from post-war passed any given point sill suffering

Foodstuffs. shortages,

clothing. beat it is unlikely that tobacco, wine and spirits, ship's re-appear for some time; but no- stores, motor vehicle necessorles~ one knows when and where the Mobile Squad will appear next. ull can find ready buyers.

In the Royal Docks alone to-

They will swoop on one dock. barco valued at over £300,000,-

<horough search ut omeinis.

lightermen

engineers, 000 is stored in the warehouses make The government Public

of meat vehicles, craft and personnal, and members of the Forces and others Millions

minules later be docks Relations Office relensed a

perhaps 30 every who pass in an endless stream in pass through

at other dock miles away. statement yesterday evening and out of the Pont of

London year.

Ducks In the London

In 1947 the Mobile Squad made on a requisitioning develop-docks.

of wine

421 special searches ment which hus aroused in-

and 28 special checks at the dock gates. icrest

to the only second

In all 3,550 vehicles and persons taking over of La Salle Col-

were scrutinised. logo. The seizure of the China National Aviation Cor- poration's workshops at Kai Tak has led to the complete of London Authority's own poilçe B area of a few hundred yards to their destination. Ten drivers extended duties unless the Palire

all services suspension of operated by this company, the oldest and largest Chin- ese airline,

The "China Mail" has pre-

not

thou

ond

Majesty's

But this Constable, whose pri.sands of barrels

while

on duty ut spirits be out in the open, awul1- mary concern ties

is Kate

the protection in gauging by His of properly,

incin- Customs prior to being stored in ber uf Landen's Metropolitan the vaults.

In the West India Docks it is Pollee Forer, although

quite common to see form is similar.

as 400 motor vehicles Bred up its He wears the badge of the Post

force.

his uril-

It is one of the most efficient police forces the world. During 1947 gonds all descriptions

of valued at hundreds of millions of

us

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They have an equally fine re cord in fre prevention, and the administration of the made of PLA Bye-Laws. Their Atubulance Special checks were

Service Is so highly regarded many { fruit and tea cargoes, and 82 Ser

that the dockers refused to work followed the suspect vehicles were

waiting for ships to take them to were arrested and six charged, all corners of the world, In one

vehicles

There were 95 special searches to year

value ot passed through these involving 1,215 barges, 13 lighter £500,000

Divisional men being arrested. docks alone, yet the

Altogether 64 ships were sear Inspector of

of Police received only}

viously suggested that Chin-pounds passed through the port { 24 complaints of minor damage.ched and 33 seamen arrested,

ese aviation companies seem- ed to have won highly pre- ferential

rights regarding routes between the Colony We had, and the mainland.

of course,

no intention of

suggesting discrimination on the other extreme, and ac-

Three Men Drug Sharks

Eighteen

to be the

were found result of handling in transit, an

Special Check

only six The result of criminal activity. From arrests that were When pliferage of any parti- made and of the £100-worth of cular type of commodity is sus accessories stolen

frum

of the the pected or complained vehicles 60% was recovered. complete discharge of a vessal's That is the measure of the pro- cargo is subject to a specjal teelion given to

to the Import and check unknown to the crew, the export cargoes which pass stevedores and dockers. through the Port of

Police record every Item dis- How is it achieved?

charged from the vessel, every

Simons A crew of Simple shove aff from Florida's, white sands before dawn these days "for to catch a whate and any other likely sea specimens, big or little.

are

lons of wall water pour avery

and the day,

whale they after just

now will ge to the Oceanarium at Marineland.

Marineland-"the ocean floor through 200 portholes"

and joined the

I drove to

cording to yesterday's state- By JAMES BROUGH ment, this is not the govern- ment's policy either. The eurpuration is not being forced to close down any of its air routes, and in the opinion of the nuthorities, such a move is unnecessary. What has now become in- evitable is that CNAC must their chief mainten- move ance base outside the Colony, but they are still offered one building and a small area of land at Kai Tak to perform necessary day to day ser- vicing and repair of their machines. It is pointed out that no other foreign opera- tor has established a main hase in Hong Kong.

fall of Anticipating the Shanghai, CNAC moved their personnel and equip- ment here

London.

PLA Strength

com-

Ambulance was available. Withn 15 minutes of um nechtent call have the Police Ambulancemen the patient safely in bed in the nearest hospital.

Indeed, the Port of Loudent Police are held in high regarit

by nearly all who work la the

Correspondent

accuracy of forecasts.

questions

the local

Actually, he's all wet.

U10

weather

"New Celling Rates For Cables Between S. Commonwealth."

As we told the headline writer responsible, that's a bit. premu- ture. Why, Dritain isn't even the 490

yet, state

atter #

performd

A contemporary's cap'ion yes- terday, ler the picture of a ladun couple seated ut a table with glasses of wine, read:

"Mr. anance of "Mr. Roberts," the smash hit play Blilingsley's

Club Stork Mrs Henry Fonda -relax. Sherman

Broadway, which Mr. Fonda sters!! We don't want to conclusions, but it rather tooks as if the caption writer had been at the flowing bowl himself.

on

A Lobster Bitta.

The bathbig bolle Let out a yeile....

And now her two-piece Needs one new_piece,

at

to any

4

каун Myrtle's grandfather szeressful man is one who can make

can more than his wife

woman spend-and a successful is one who can land such a hus- hotel,

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I see the great Macato San has committee's refused two Senate invitations to return to America te lestify.

Quite right, too. Nasty cri- tical place, with a deplorable ab- sence of cloud-wreathed, marble tones, where everyone doesn't kow low, and they already have a No. 1.

In Lantion last week a Chi- nese girl student was refused ad- mission to a bottle party.

Her naine was probably T Yung.

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She was badly sunburned, but very heart of the worki's great she only got what she was bask- centre of Commerce. And those ing for. black sheep in their midst are so e- deeply impressed by their

"I've got a good pair of legs," "I'm not talking tency that they think twice when sakl Myrtle. tempted.

abmit the shape. I'm walking the abeat the serviceability."

London That is why safest port in the world.

Caravan Train Brings Art To The People

It was in 1908 that the Portlem loaded into each lorry or of London Authority was created barge, and again when unloaded by Act DI Parliament to ad- ut the destination. Any dlacre- minister the Docks of the Port paneles have to be accounted of London. It is a Public Trust, for. which look over the powers and In all In 1347 the Mobile Their "pails" are two tanks undertakings of the old dock Squad made 180 arrests, 110 per. Summer and the caravans are through which 7,000,000 gal companies, and whose business it sons were charged and £2,000- on the road again. Not all the -in to administer the Port for the worth of properly was recovered. CECAYDAS, however, are of the

good of the public.

The Port of Lundon Police re-holiday variety. An American gard their primary function as correspondent has been wulching the protection of property, the preparations for a Caravan Trahi property of the world

travel which that will

thousands of miles with no other purpose than The PLA took over,

along passes through the London Docks,

Art that of bringing Only when they fail

to the thousands of with the rest of the dock

in this, tourists who arrive every week to

people. panies' personnel, the

thren and then failures are microscople

Realising that millions of pear through thick glass peop- separate Pollee Forces in being, us statistics show, it is their duty Americans have never seen a holes

and set about welding them into to detect, and bring the criminal

play, never heard the direct There I heard the stories of the one Force, re-organised on the -to-justice.

music of a concert orchestra, Simple Simons: Sonny Noell, tines of the Metropolitan Police, They have a Criminal Investi- never evon tasted the innocent Ronnie Саро, and Lawrence Today the PLA Police Force gation Department of 49, headed pleasure of wandering round Д Andreu, whose job as collectors has a strength of 583, under the by a Divisional Inspector and well-stocked bookshop, a number

to keep the two big tanks filled. control

of art-minded firms and business of the Chief Pollee four Inspectors. For six months after

have There are

contributedl VJ-Day Officer, W.H. Simmons,

MBE.

Interesting associationa the Simple Simons, starting from

$125,000 to the Caravan scheme. cases In their records, but Their

power extends rock bottom, fished by day and 3,521 acres of land, 720 acres of will give an example of their

Throughout the summer 14 night to

their

gally-painted caravans will tour 18ft-deer water and 44 miles of quays of workc,

in the country from Shanghai "pails."

of the search The only members of the crow the Port of London.

"forgotten" millions, At each cabbage and potatoes as The Port of London (Consull-on duty on board a ship which stop the caravans will be Con- bait they collected angel fish and

dation) Act of 1920

the was being loaded were an officer, verted into art galleries, theatres. rock beauties.

police the power to stop, search fireman and a watchman. At cinemas and bookshops.

12.30 a.m. and detain

the watchman come reasonably persons suspected of being in possession out of the galley and noticed a of property stolen or unlawfully light in a hold which should have obtained, and this power is ex-been baitened down, and the fire tended to Include premises, man saw a man disappear down vehicles or boats within a radius he gangway. They did not notify

the pollee until 7.30 a.m. of one mile of the Port of Lon- don

last year, and will naturally be loth to transfer them again. They were, however, given fair notice which per- haps understandably they chose to contes!, meanwhile taking no action to evacuate. As the PRO stated, it was on June 10 that the first re- quisitioning order was issu- ed, and an extension was granted when requested. It was emphasised that the in- convenience bound to be caused was regretted, but that defence requirements must take priority.

With the arrival of HMS Ocean with its quota of Spit- fires, government considered It was impossible to delay

further, and the buildings were summarily taken over, by virtue of new emergency powers which overrode an injunction obtained at the Supreme Court by the cor- poration on Saturday.

The company's case is that

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In wire traps they caught acn bass, vermilion

snappers, and tomtates.

The Tongs Snap

If you want to catch a porpoise -fastest swimmer in the ses--you take a pair of mammoth lee-langs fastened to the end of a pole. The Simple Simon technique is to thrust them, prongs open, at the races before a

sca-bcast an it

over the

gave

when disturbed.

many

д

one

rolls

dry

The Dolective Sorgeant who in- It is a power held by only two vestigated found in the hold a other Police Forces in Britain, bale cut opens and several the Metropolitan and Liverpool of cloth missing. There was blood Forces; this power la of extreme on the hessian of the bale. He value in preventing the carriage also found a waistcoat, a semi. boat's bows.

stiff collar of stolen property.

bearing part of a A spring is tripped, the ends of {

The PLA Police Force cpernte name, and a pair of spectacles, the share anap to on the porpoise's five divisions within the Port: Lon- which the thief had left behind tail, and you have a live, fighting don and St Katherine Docks: catch on your hands.

East and West India and Mill- the crew's quarters' were o The ice-tongs have snapped to wall Docks: Royal Victoria and number of rolls of cloth, en eight porpolacs.

10 waistcoat boro Albent and King George V Docks Snuffling water through the Surrey Commercial Docks; and cleaner's mark and there was blow-hole

part of a dock labourer's pay in the top of their Tilbury Docks.

Each Division is in the charge slip in the waistcoat pocket, water to snatchi fish from the of a Divisional Inspector. There teeth

and their keeper, Midge is a Police Station

Motor

Sent. To Laboratory Lightsey.

Ambulance Service at each Con- Catching shark is a lot more trol

The blood on the hessian, the trouble. The collectors bond wat Each group of Docks is sur collar and waistcoat were seni to the laboratory for testing, and Then they let out a thick line there are no fewer than 89 en- enquirles In a 15-knot craft for 10 miles. rounded by

were made at all with fathoms of its length, buoyed and and Police and the interior of duplicate pay slips indicated hooks tangling every six trance gates, 17 water entrances, opticians and dry cleaners

38 beats, All gates are man-

a chock of the anchored at each end.

After a few hours they usually the Docks is covered day and that the portion found in the And

couple of sharks hooked an

night by beat patrols; the total waistcoat belonged to a certain the line. The

Detectives calling at his home:

heads, they leap a foot out of the

wall or fence, and

Meanwhile

there is nowhere else suit- able for them to set up their chief maintenance base, and they may therefore have to feet them, to trick, then is to in- length of the beats being 166 perso

an over-sized miles. close down. Obviously no hypodermic needle, with knock- All goods Leaving the docks within a few hours, found him such result was intended by scooped up in 1,000-yard nats, | signed by an authorised person, the waistcoat; and in the house

out drops

20 that the sharks can must be covered by s_pass, wearing a jacket which” matched the authorities, and disinter- ested observers would be ex-hauled aboard, and delivered into showing the number and descrip- they discovered the trousers,

track

tion of the articles. An important damp to the knees. Between tremely reluctant to see this

ped in canvas, the shark

duty

of the constables at me the ship's berth and the dock fence ( happen.

Is lowered by crane into the blue gates is to collect the passes and

Was knee high

Hu answers Requisitioning in times of groen water of the Oceanarium, ensure that the quantities taken were evasive. He stated that the stress is bound

where a diver takes over as need out tally and that the signature collar, which bore his name with to be un mald. With a firm grip on its popular, to a degree depends, he exercises the game fish

is correct:

the exception of one letter had ing on the tact and foresteht back to consciousnes, walking

been lost at the laundry; but the laboratory proved that it had of those responsible. With round and round the tank, floor,

never been washed. The cleaner's few exceptions we think off-

mark was identical on coat, Waistcoat and trousers,

and was Its outcome to one, and many different types of traced. The opilcian who had

made the spectacles

was made WIN PLA" Baggago, i Clestance, Dew and the prescription Lo

mand and Grain, Sample, to

out for the same man. Finally? Ship's Officers, and Private Com- the blood group shown in hi #wana have manufacturing Army pay-book-coinci

the halood on the hand

|cials have fulfilled these re-

quirements, and it is sin- evitable.

Specialised Work

Tala la specialized work for the pass system an intricate

cerely to be hoped that the date has been so unfortun- panes are used, varying from Chinese community will not ata that cour

ing the

highly

Idions seem to

veri-

Nor will the country customers be left to discover the Arts for themselves. Travelling with every

will caravan

professional artists and experts ready to give advice and lectures un any of the subjects "on show.

be

Finally, if this year's Caravan Train is a success the sponsors

vill club together to put as many as a 100 caravans "on the road."

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