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The Chief Constable of Berkshire has already a system of notifying all necessary police stations and the police of Hampshire and Surrey. Military assistance and police dogs are available to him and he must Pbedeftato decide when and how these aids should be fused? (iii) We suggest that the Chief Constable consult the Post Office with a view to devising machinery for warning schools of any escape which takes place during school hours. We hope that arrangeme

arrangemeèan be made for these messages to be sent to schools and villagePost Offices by telephone operators at the Telephone Exchanges when the police make the request. (iv) There is already machinery for the communication of urgent police messages to the Press and the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion. We hope that in proper cases the British Broadcasting Corporation will give a degree of priority to the announcement of

an escape. (v) The Medical Superintendent and the Chief Constable of Berkshire should work out a plan of co-operation between the Broadmoor staff and the police to be operated when an escape takes place. In this connection we should say that the public cannot be expected to under- stand the disposition of the police and nursing staff when an escape takes place and we think that some criticisms made to us on this point were unjustified. But we think that there is no good reason for police and nurses not telling members of the public that search is being made for an escaped inmate.

(vi) We do not think that any system of automatic alarms to indicate when

a patient scales a wall or goes through a door is practicable.

(vii) Some system of notifying the public when a capture has been effected will have to be devised, but the methods to be used will have to vary according to the length of time that elapses between the escape and the recapture.

31. Summary of Recommendations

(a) The Board of Control should continue to ensure that the prime importance of security is constantly brought to the attention of every person in any way concerned with administration at Broadmoor (para- graph 17).

(b) The Medical Superintendent and the Deputy Medical Superintendent should, save in very special circumstances, have had either prison experience or experience in Broadmoor or one of the other two State Institutions (paragraph 18).

(c) Sufficient increases in salaries should be made to attract suitable applicants for training as student nurses at Broadmoor (paragraph 22). (d) The pay and conditions of service of the nursing staff should not automatically be linked with those of the National Health Service (paragraph 23).

(e) Every member of the staff at Broadmoor should have a copy of the

Security Rules (paragraph 24).

(f) The Board of Control should consider how it can secure a better understanding of its policy on the part of the staff (paragraph 25). (g) Patients' communications with higher authorities should be seen by

the Medical Superintendent before transmission (paragraph 26). (h) The works yard should be put outside the security wall of the

Institution (paragraph 27).

(i) All workmen at Broadmoor who may come into contact with patients should be carefully chosen and should receive regular instruction on