The Washington herald., 1913-04-11
Court Gossip of Interesting
Epents on THO Continents

nent career From which t Is evident
that the German Authorities are deter.
| mined to have the very best men thsy
| can get for the police force.
Training for German policeman may
be said to be the most arduous, for, in
addition to the lessons in the police
| school, he is instructed in the most up
to-date methods of dealing with GRIM
inals. One of the methods of instruction
| is like that used by enthusiastic Ameri-
can football players when practicing-
heavy sandbag on a rope is set swinging.
and the policeman has to run to meet II
as il swings toward him and stop 1t
! dead. This is practice in dealing with
the rush of crowd. He is also instruct
| ed in a hundred and one different matters
that make IL necessary for him to always
have his wits about him, for, II must be
understood, that he has multitude Of
duties when compared with the police Of
any other country.
In Berlin the police have a nose in al
| most everything. When you go to Ber-
lin you are reported to the police. and no
stranger can get in or out Of the coun-
! try, and no visitor can come or go, with
out leaving a record of his visit.
The French gendarme's training also
| is of very minute character. and the
finished article, according to the French
or eight months. Not only does he have
to study the general routine of his du-
ties, but he is invited by his superiors
to write reports of imaginary accidents
To enable him to be technically correct
he is instructed in the laws relating TO
the construction of scaffolding, in the
mechanism of motors and motor trans,
and so on. He is taught to neglect no
details in his reports. and his account
of an accident or a fight, &c, will be
punctuated with encircled numbers. each
number representing an infraction OF
some particular law, and every law
broken is given in detail at the end of
the report.
The Russian police system is extremely
complicated, for it practically gives
Russia an assistant policeman in every
house in ST. Petersburg. Each landlord
has porter or acts as porter himself.
Such porter has authority to make an
arrest and he is obliged to rush from
the house to the street at the sound or
a police whistle. AS there is policeman
stationed at every block (Which is the
limit of his beaO, and as every police
man within certain radius may respond
with the porters to the signal. II takes
but a few seconds to get a platoon of
uniformed men, with almost regiment Of
porter policemen " together.
Russia also has most elaborate sys-
tenn of training it's policemen, and some
time ago there was opened at st. Peters
burg a fully-equipped policeman's college,
designed to train men in the various
duties of an officer Of the law. AT this
college policemen are made familiar with
the tools used by criminals. their teachers
holding that they cannot become proficient
policemen in any other way The pupil
attends lectures at which burglars
methods and instruments are explained,
so that he can checkmate them. He
has the advantage of the criminal
museum. which is attached to the
college. There every appurtenance known
to the breakers of the law must be expert
mented with until its every use Is thor
oughly understood.
1t is no exaggeration to say. however,
that the New York police are required to
learn more than any other policeman IN
the world, on account of the many and
intricate laws. And not only does
policeman deal with the criminal law. but
persons on his beat may make complaints
which may implicate him in civil matters.
such as divorce suits, &c Consequently
the old saying, BE very, very careful
what you do should be continually be-
fore the mind of the New York policeman
FLANEJR.
Copyright 1918 By Court Gossip syndicate)