“Crime In Hot Retreat Before Chief Faulds,” Toronto Star. October 28, 1930. Page 30. ----- Township’s Police Chief Has Reorganized and Built Up Force ---- Sixty thousand people in the township of York look to John Faulds, chief of the police force, and his 34 men, for the protection of their peace and property and since he took the job, in 1925, crime has been at a low ebb in the municipality.
When he first came to York township, the force consisted of 22 men, unorganized and unfitted for the work in many cases. In five years he has reorganized the force and gradually built it up to present strength, weeding out the old timers until 80 per cent, of the present staff are new men. He also compiled a set of records covering his district, and has the whereabouts of all suspicious characters, men likely to be associated with crime, checked at all times.
The chief’s life has been spent at police work with the exception of the war years. In 1905, at the age of 18, he entered the Lanarkshire county constabulary in Scotland, going from there to Stoke-on-Trent, in 1909. He and his family came to Toronto in 1914 when he joined the city force. The winter of 1914-1915 saw him in the army’s service in France with the 9th Artillery Brigade, where he was promoted on the field to the rank of regimental sergeant major and first-class warrant officer. He returned to Canada in 1919, and was stationed at the headquarters on the Toronto police force until 1925, when he left to come to the township.
