The King has appointed a Royal Commission to consider the
powers' and duties of police in England and Wales in the investigation of crimes and offences, including the functions of the Director " of Public Prosecutions, and to make recomniendations. The Commission is to . inquire into the practice followed in taking statements during the investigation of crimes. Lord Lee is to be Chairman, -and among the - Menibers are Dame Meriel Talbot, Mr. Brownlie, the trade-union leader, a solieitor, and four others. It will not surprise--anyone it.they find it desirable to recommend some changes as chic since the War and since the Judges' Rules and police _instruetions were framed. If they should also find that there, have been some conspicuous exceptions to the good judgment of officers, we hope that they will put them in their true relation to the vast aggregate of good work done.
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