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I am starting a thread for this also, even though it has been discussed before.
In September 1894 he had stated in the Evening News and Post:
"You should understand that the Scotland Yard method must always differ widely from the French method, because our law is so entirely different in these matters to that of France.
"For instance," said Mr. Anderson, using our representative as the corpus vile on which to illustrate this difference in the system of the two countries, "you are walking along the streets of Paris, and are merely suspected as a criminal who has been in the hands of the Police on a previous occasion. The evidence against you may be of the flimsiest possible character - there may really be none at all - but you are seized all the same, and at once subjected to a searching scrutiny at the hands of the Police. Your measurements are taken, your finger-prints, etc., examined, and you are not released until the authorities have satisfied themselves that they have made a mistake. Such a method is repugnant to British law and feeling.
"Here we cannot drag you to Scotland Yard and examine you in this summary fashion. If there is good reason to suspect you of being a criminal all that can be done is to charge you before a magistrate, and if the charge fails there is no way by which you can be subjected to examination for purposes of identification. We can only use our albums against you if you are remanded..."
In 1911 in The Police Encyclopedia, Anderson wrote, “if our London ‘detectives’ possessed the powers, and might have recourse to the methods, of Foreign Police Forces, [the Whitechapel murderer] would have been brought to justice.”
RH
In September 1894 he had stated in the Evening News and Post:
"You should understand that the Scotland Yard method must always differ widely from the French method, because our law is so entirely different in these matters to that of France.
"For instance," said Mr. Anderson, using our representative as the corpus vile on which to illustrate this difference in the system of the two countries, "you are walking along the streets of Paris, and are merely suspected as a criminal who has been in the hands of the Police on a previous occasion. The evidence against you may be of the flimsiest possible character - there may really be none at all - but you are seized all the same, and at once subjected to a searching scrutiny at the hands of the Police. Your measurements are taken, your finger-prints, etc., examined, and you are not released until the authorities have satisfied themselves that they have made a mistake. Such a method is repugnant to British law and feeling.
"Here we cannot drag you to Scotland Yard and examine you in this summary fashion. If there is good reason to suspect you of being a criminal all that can be done is to charge you before a magistrate, and if the charge fails there is no way by which you can be subjected to examination for purposes of identification. We can only use our albums against you if you are remanded..."
In 1911 in The Police Encyclopedia, Anderson wrote, “if our London ‘detectives’ possessed the powers, and might have recourse to the methods, of Foreign Police Forces, [the Whitechapel murderer] would have been brought to justice.”
RH
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