Commissioner Parsons
Heads Pacific Coast
Police Organization

CONCLUDING a two day business ses-
sion at Victoria, June 24th, forty delegates
of the Pacific Coast International Associa-
tion of Law Enforcement officials chose
Commissioner T. W. S. Parsons of the
B.C. Police to succeed General of Brigade,

Miguel Z. Martinez of Mexico, as President
of the organization. Jas. S. Egan, Chief In-
spector, F.B.I., Washington, D.C. was

named first vice-president.
Other officers named were: R. H. Woot-
ton, state director, Utah Bureau of Crim-
i

BUSINESS SESSION OF PACIFIC COAST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AT VICTORIA

T. W. S. Parsons,

Commis:

Front row, left to right: Harry F. Niles, Chief of Police, Portland;
sioner, B.C. Police, Victoria; Miss Dorothy Wyland, Olympia, Wash.; Allen E. Birch, Sheriff,

Tillamook, Ore.;
Portland. Behind first row: Thos. McGrandle, U. S. Guard, Vancouver, Wash.; Clyde O. Niles,
Special Agent, Union Pacific Railway, Portland; Donald Mackay, Chief Constable, Vancouver,
B.C.; John D. Helmick, Patrolman, Portland, (Ore.) Police Department; H. B. Foy, Lieutenant
Detective, Seattle; John Shirras (back) Asst. Commissioner, B.C. Police, Vancouver, B.C.; Warren
A. McMinimee, District Attorney, Tillamook, Ore.; John Turrish, (back) Captain, U.S. Police,
Vancouver, Wash.; John P. Duggan, Asst. Police Chief, Butte, Montana; J. Douglas Swenson,
special agent in charge, F.B.I., Portland; Otis R. Bohn, representative, California Packers, San Fran-
cisco, and Howard Fletcher, special agent F.B.L., Seattle.

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Lake City, second vice-president; Arthur
A. Akiva, sheriff for Kohala Division,
County of Hawaii, Kohala, T.H., third
vice-president; Martin T. Pratt, sheriff,
Multnomah County, Portland, Ore., fourth
vice-president; John M. Walker, chief of
police, Olympia, Wash., fifth vice-presi-
dent; Carl C. Donaugh, U.S. district at-
torney, Portland, Ore., secretary-treasurer;
the Hon. R. L. Maitland, K.C. Attorney
General of British Columbia was named
to the International Police Relations Com-
mittee.

Ordinarily the Association holds a large
annual convention, but due to war time
conditions the session just concluded was
largely of a business nature.

International in its nature, the Associa-
tion is concerned with the co-ordination of
law enforcement activities in California,
Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico,
Wyoming, Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas,
Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Washington,
British Columbia, the Yukon and Mexico.
The territory involved is about 3,000,000
square miles including approximately 10,
000 miles of Pacific coast line.

At the first day’s session, the delegates
were addressed at an official luncheon by
the Hon. R. L. Maitland, attorney general.
Introduced to the gathering by Commis-
sioner Parsons, Mr. Maitland spoke of the
problem of alien enemies, the responsibili-

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