Charles Reith Man of Principle 1886–1957

Abstract

One of the best horses ever to come from the stable of police research since Major Melville Lee. Determined, dedicated, forthright, provocative and a man of the highest integrity, he was a peculiarly sensitive interpreter of the hitherto neglected 18th and 19th century British Police affairs of a kind who had no equal. His First World War experiences and of the many races and nationalities coupled with his deep and thorough researches into the origin of the British Police Principles upon which the British Police is based which can be found in all his works he had a fervent desire to see those principles applied on an international scale — prompted him to write “Police Principles and the Problem of War”, which was published by Oxford University Press shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War.