CANADIAN-MEXICAN POLICE HEADS HOLD IMPORTANT OFFICES IN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION AT THE three-day convention of the Paci- fic Coast International Association of Law Enforcement Officers, held at Portland, Oregon, July 14th, 15th and 16th, 1941, delegates from Canada, Mexico and the United States elected Brigadier General Miguel Z. Martinez as President of the In- ternational Association of Police Officers. Commissioner T. W. S. Parsons. Commissioner Thos. W. S. Parsons of the B. C. Police was elected 1st Vice President. Other officers chosen were: James S. Egan, U. S. Department of Justice, 2nd Vice President; R. H. Wootton, Salt Lake City, 3rd Vice President; Arthur A. Akina, Ko- hala, Hawati, 4th Vice President; Martin T. Pratt, Portland, 5th Vice President and John M. Walker of Olympia, Washington, Secretary-Treasurer. Highlight of the convention was a midday parade through Portland’s downtown sec- tion, and tens of thousands of Portlanders braved the heat wave to witness the colour- ful pageantry of three nations. On a pranc- ing white horse, Leo Carrillo flashing-eyed motion picture star, was grand marshal of the parade, in which the flags of Canada, the United States and Mexico fluttered. In- cluded in the marching police teams were the Vancouver (B.C.) Police Pipe band, a picked body of B.C. Provincial Police, the WINTER EDITION Mexican Police band, and Mexican motor- cycle squads and entertainers. The Portland police were represented by their motorcycle squadron and drum and bugle corps. Among the marchers were also a detachment of U.S. Naval reserves, Port- land air base soldiers, the Bonneville Dam guards, and sheriff's posses on horseback. Planes from the 55th Pursuit Squadron droned overhead. Each night of the three day convention, an international fiesta was held in the Mult- nomah Civic Stadium, where ten thousand people heard the world famous Mexican police band play national airs of the three countries, and witnessed thrilling demonstra- tions of markmanship by picked Mexican pistol squads, and breath-taking tricks by dare devil police motorcyclists from Mexico city. Last but not least, the soul-chilling air raid defence demonstration staged by a squad of British Columbia Provincial Police—amid the concussion of bombs and the screaming engines of U.S. army air- planes overhead—struck a high note in Portland’s history of programmes. Commissioner Parsons of the B. C. Police, in his address to the assembled delegates, chose the subject: “War problems of Police”, in which he discussed the possibility of an international police force. “Canada, United States and Mexico are not enough” said Mr. Parsons “we must go south and finally accomplish a solid Amercian front”. He told how fifteen thousand British Col- umbians had identified themselves with the problem of civilian defence, and visioned a definite post-war problem for police officers, when he said “where at present there are five policemen, perhaps twenty may be required to guide, help and direct the inevitable readjustments which follow every great social upheaval”. P.O. Box 1 D. J. JENKINS, LIMITED Funeral Directors Telephone 124 Ambulance NANAIMO, B.C. ELKS HOME No. 26 e Visiting Brothers Welcome Front Street Nanaimo, B.C. LOTUS HOTEL Mrs. I. Smith, Proprietress Licensed Premises NANAIMO, B. C. Pacific Coast International Association of Law Enforcement Officials. Left to right: President-elect General Miguel Z. Martinez, Chief of Police of the Federal District, Mexico; Retiring President John P. Duggan, Asst. Chief of Police, Butte, Montana; First Vice-President Thomas W. S. Parsons, Commissioner, B. C. Police, and fourth Vice-President, Deputy Sheriff Arthur A. Akina of Kohala, Trerritory of Hawaii. Page Twenty-five