THE PARIS POLICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 4

THE PARIS POLICE.

The new Prefect of Police at Paris, M. Heimion. is carrying out a number of reforms in the service he controls. His latest idea inis been to imitate the example set by Rome and Berlin and organise a Paris policeman’s school. Five out of every six policemen in Paris, it appears, are men who re-enlisted in the army after performing their compulsory military service. They are, therefore, picked men. But even these men, when they enter the police force, cannot bo expected to act straightway with the tact, decision, and coolness of the trained hand. For the first three months the young policeman will he entirely occupied by his school work. Then he will be initiated into beat and point duty under the eye of an experienced superior. This subject will last for six months. For the remaining three months of his first year the young policeman will be left to himself more or less. At the end of the year he will be required to take up the full duties of his rank. A novel feature will ho the introduction of the cinematograph for the purpose of illustrating street scenes, accidents, cases of sudden illness in which prompt action is necessary, etc. The “s,indents” will have to pass their examinations, and their diplomas will'ho taken into account when the time comes for promotion. It is believed that even police commissaries and their assistants will be able to benefit by certain of the lectures which in many cases will be given by magistrates and professors.