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1950s

IPA 1950s In May 1950, Arthur Troop produced the first attempt at an IPA magazine. Sadly, an original copy has not survived in the archives, but someone did type up the content a few years later. The content is all amusing anecdotes from the news of the time; evidently the fledgling Association had not generated its own news in its first four months.

A rthur’s introduction read: “It has been my privilege and pleasure to follow the growth of the International Police Association. I have had much pleasure and happiness from my association with police officers of other lands. The bulletins of the Association have been informative, but it is now felt that we should launch our own magazine. It is the intention that the first copy shall be simple in form, small in size, but filled with a wealth of friendliness. It is hoped that this issue may stimulate our members to write and tell us what they would like in their magazine. We want this magazine to be the first of a long series, regularly published and filling the needs of our members and friends.” Help for Arthur Three years later, in 1953, the first issue of the IPA British Section National Newsletter appeared. This was very simple in format, which I imagine was produced on the Gestener stencil machines which I remember from my childhood. But it was the origin of what would become Police World magazine. The Newsletter covered the IPA’s expansion through Europe, and the inclusion of a regular IPA section in the French police magazine, Politie. Several sub-committees were created in 1993, to relieve Arthur from some duties he had been performing single headedly. One of these was the Correspondence and Holidays Sub-Committee, created to organise IPA trips abroad. A Truly International IPA The Summer 1953 Newsletter covered two visits by European members. The first was a visit by Dutch Members to England. Our members hosted them in London, where they visited Parliament, and also further north in Manchester and Chester. Later in the year, a group from Norway visited Blackpool and Scotland. The concept of international police friendship reached diplomatic levels, as the Norwegian Consul travelled to visit his countrymen in Blackpool.

Summer 1953 British Section newsletter

Remembering an IPA Stalwart Derrick Hibberd joined the IPA in its very first year (1950), being attached to both Blackpool and Suffolk Branches during his very long membership. S adly Derrick died in November 2018, aged 92 . We were told about his passing by fellow Blackpool member, Brian Kay, who Derrick introduced to IPA membership 50 years ago. Derrick is also fondly remembered by Fox Road Business Operations Manager, Michele Rai. She met Derrick during a visit to Fox Road for the Association’s 60th Anniversary. She described him as “a lovely man.” After his visit, Michele took to phoning him about every six months to see how he was.

1950

1950 On the 1 January 1950 the IPA was born.

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POLICE WORLD Vol 65 No.2, 2020