Philip Lane (police officer)

Lane was also intended for the Army, but instead joined the Essex County Constabulary as a Constable in 1887, a very unusual career move for a gentleman at the time.[2] Lane was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order 4th Class (MVO) in 1913 for organising royal visits to Lancashire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1918 civilian war honours for policing the many munitions factories in the county during the First World War, and knighted in the 1925 New Year Honours.[3] He was one of the first Chief Constables in the country to introduce motorcycle combination patrols and wireless communications.He was also one of the few county constabulary Chief Constables before the latter half of the 20th century to be a career policeman and not a military officer or lawyer.Lane was taken ill suddenly after organising the policing of the 1927 Grand National, having only recently got over influenza.
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