- P.E.S Finney
Philip Edmund Stanley Finney
OBE known as P.E.S Finney (born1904-12-11 ; died 1980) was a police officer who served in theIndian Police Service and the British and Indian military intelligence.Finney was born on December 11th 1904 in
Hulme ,Manchester and was educated at St. John's School inSurrey . Finney passed theIndian Police Service examination and joined the British Bengal Police in 1924. He was trained at Police Training College inRajshahi , (now the Bangladesh Police Academy) and served in different districts of British Bengal (nowBangladesh andWest Bengal ) and in the Special Branch of Calcutta Police in 1939–40. During theSecond World War , Finney worked in Military Intelligence in theUnited Kingdom and inBritish India . He returned from India in 1947.He was awarded the
Order of the British Empire in 1934 and was the leader of the British Indian Police contingent to the coronation ofKing George VI inLondon . After returning from India he spent eleven in business in the United Kingdom and then six years in Central Africa as head of the Special Branch of the Nyasaland Police. He married Noel Montgomery and had two daughters and one son. He died in 1980. His book "Just My Luck: Memoirs of a Police Officer of the Raj" was published by The University Press Limited,Dhaka ,Bangladesh , in 2000.References
*cite book|last=Finney | first=Philip Edmund Stanley| title=Just My Luck: Memoirs of a Police Officer of the Raj| publisher=University Press| location=Dhaka| date=2000| isbn=984 05 1547 0| oclc=45388504
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