Sir Edward Bradford, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, has
retired after a most successful career of nearly thirteen years, during which he has twice on great ceremonial occasions had to organise arrangements almost as complicated as those for an expedition by a great army. The entire absence of "regrettable incidents" during the second Jubilee and the Coronation was due in great measure to his skill and forethought. His successor, Mr. E. R. Henry, C.S.I., has had great police experience in India, having for eight years been Inspector-General of Police in Bengal, a most difficult post in spite of the general orderliness of the population, and he did good work also in a similar capacity in the Transvaal. We trust that during his tenure of office he will be able to secure some addition to his force, which, though sufficient for London proper, is not quite adequate to the needs of the fringe of great cities which we class together as "the suburbs of London."
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