Lot 56
"The Palestine Police Constable's Manual" – Jerusalem, 1931
"The Palestine Police Constable's Manual", by Albert John Kingsley-Heath. Jerusalem: Goldberg's Press, [1931]. English.
The book includes the constitution of the police, description of its hierarchic structure and terms of service; governmental orders, instructions about conducting investigations, arrests, legal procedures, and more.
The author, Albert John Kingsley-Heath, was born in Egypt in 1899 and served in Palestine from at least the mid-twenties. He was chief of the Criminal Investigation Department in 1937, when he resigned owing to an outbreak of Arab-Jewish violence. He was awarded an OBE in 1938, and was back as Deputy Inspector General of Palestine Police Force in 1940. He was appointed Commissioner of Police and Attorney-General of Kenya in mid-1941 and died in an aircraft accident over Eastern Libya in November 1943.
[2] leaves, 214 pp (bound with blank leaves; presumably to write down notes), 17 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Penciled markings and notes (some of them on the text). One leaf is detached and several leaves are loose. Library stamps. A label on the inside front binding. The binding is slightly worn and loose. The spine is detached.
Not in NLI.
