Other members of 5 Squad
There were three other members of The Great Train Robbery investigative team known as '5 squad'.
DCS Ernest George William Millen (1911鈥�1988)
Ernest Millen has been described as both brusque and rude. But although in many ways he was not a quintessential Flying Squad officer, when he headed the Squad, he was admired and respected by his officers.
Millen was known as 鈥楬ooter鈥� either because of his imperious nose or because, disdaining the use of internal telephones or intercoms, he would bellow orders from his office at the Yard.
It was Millen (along with his own superior Hatherill) who took the decision to publish the names and photographs of the suspects (and in some cases their wives), in the national press. Butler and Williams were vehemently opposed to such a course of action. They felt that by using their own contacts and informants they would be able to find the robbers themselves. Butler argued that this course of action could drive the robbers into hiding, perhaps out of the country where it could take years to trace them, a prophesy that unfortunately turned out to be correct.
Henry Brooke (1903 - 1984)
Brooke was Home Secretary from July 1962 - Oct 1964.
Oxford educated, the Conservative Brooke was not a particularly successful Home Secretary and his actions caused controversy on several occasions, including a failure to provide adequate security for a state visit by King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece. It was during Brooke鈥檚 time in office that the last men were hanged in England.
Brooke was made a life peer in 1966.
Commander George Hatherill (1898 鈥� 1986)
George Hatherill was Head of CID at Scotland Yard. He was a 6鈥�6鈥� colossus, and spoke six languages. He had his service extended by one year because of the need to complete the investigation of the Great Train Robbery.
