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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1974
APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
COMMANDER NIGEL HOWELL OF NEW SCOTLAND YARD, ONE OF BRITAIN'S TOP DETECTIVES, HAS ACCEPTED AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE AND VILL TAKE OVER AS DIRECTOR OF CRIHINAL INVESTIGATION.
THE PRESENT DIRECTOR, IR. J.B. LŒES Q.P.M., C.P.H., COES ON RETIREMENT LEAVE ON AUGUST 29.
THE APPOINTMENT IS A KEY PART OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR. BRIAN CLEVIN'S DRIVE TO COUNTER SERIOUS AND ORGANISED CRIKE.
ER. HOVELL HAS CEEN MADE AVAILABLE BY COURTESY OF SIR RÓBERT HARK, COMMISSIONER OF THE RETROPOLITAN POLICE.
COMMANDER HOWELL, AGED 46, IS HARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN.
HE JOINED THE METROPOLITAN POLICE IN 1949 AND HAS BEEN IN CID SINCE 1954. HE HAS SERVED IN THE UNDER SQUAD CKNOWN AS THE FLYING EQUAD) AND HAS SPECIALISED IN CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE USE OF COMPUTER ISATION AS AN AIDE TO CID INVESTIGATIONS.
HE HAS PARTICULAR RECENT KNOWLEDGE OF DRUGS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND, LAST YEAR, VAS BRIEFLY SECONDED TO THE TUNISIAN GOVERNENT AS POLICE ADVISER.
IT IS KNOWN THAT THE COMMISSIONER REGARDS CID AS BEING OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRINE- RESTRUCTURING OF THE DEPARTMENT IS ALREADY UNDERWAY AND THE INTRODUCTION OF FURTHER MODERN COUNTER CRIHE IETHODS ARE DEING PLANNED.
MR. HOVELL HAS A HEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE GAINED AS A SENIOR OFFICER IN ONE OF THE COST SOPHISTICATED AND ADVANCED CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTIENTS.
HIS EXPERIENCE IN BOTH METROPOLITAN POLICE VORK AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL MATTERS WILL BE INVALUABLE IN ADVISING THE COMMISSIONER OJ KETHODS OF IMPROVING AND STRENGTHENING THE CID.
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