Woods To Change Police Policy

Police Commissioner Arthur Woods '92, of New York City, a brother of Professor J. H. Woods '87, has announced that he will put into effect some new ideas about policing a big city. Mr. Woods was appointed by Mayor Mitchell April 8 to succeed Mr. Waldo, and he has planned a new police system which he believes will give New York far better protection than it has ever had. He will change the unit from the borough to the section, and institute "block posts" instead of the "fixed post system" of his predecessor. Instead of having a man on any fixed corner he will be given a block to patrol carefully. These "block posts" will be separated, and in between them other men will be put on guard at signal boxes.