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NEWS FROM BRITAIN

LONDON POLICE DRAW LATRINE DUTY or SOME ARE NEVER TOO OLD!

Compared to the U.S.A., which has developed very extensive and sophisticated methods of police surveillance over public toilet facilities, England seems to be badly lagging. At least the STRATFORD EXPRESS for 3-26-65 registers shock that certain police officers in a London suburb have been offically given a 'Peeping Tom' assignment. "We could see everything," reported officers Goodall and Gorbell, after watching through a ceiling grille while two men, one aged 54 and the other 73 (sic-but maybe they meant 37), committed an alleged indecency, the exact nature of which remained unspecified.

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The affair might not have gotten so much publicity had not the suburb's leading citizen, 72-yearold Lord Sorenson, gotten into the act with a loud denunciation of such police tactics. "I agree that homosexuality is deplorable," announced he, "but nauseous as it is, this sort of spying is ridiculous. It puts quite innocent people in an intolerable situation. I share the desire to prevent young people from becoming involved in unpleasant things. But it's going too far when police adopt this method."

Editorialized the STRATFORD EXPRESS in the same issue:"The two policemen concerned"-(who had already kept a 14-day vigil on public conveniences in the district)