24 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 3

* * * * • The London correspondent of the

Manchester Guardian says that Lord Byng, the new Chief Commissioner of Police, without waiting for the Report of the Police Inquiry Commission, has decided upon a new system for taking statements at Scotland Yard. An Interrogation Department is to be organized and will include four solicitors versed in the taking of statements. Anyone from whom a statement is wanted will be handed over to this department, but will have the help of an official from the Public Prosecutor's Department. This official will warn the person of the consequences 'of anything he may say. When a person's statement has been written down he will have the opportunity of altering it, or he will be allowed to withhold his signature altogether if he wishes.