Philip Lane

Sir Harry Philip Parnell Lane (3 March 1870 – 24 April 1927) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary from April 1912 until his death in 1927.

Biography Lane was born into a military family in Plymouth, Devon, the only son of Major Henry Eyre Wyatt Lane and Maria Parnell.

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. He was moved to a nursing home in Malvern, but died shortly afterwards.