SCOTLAND YARD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 42, 30 November 1935, Page 8

SCOTLAND YARD

AMERICAN CHIEF’S VISIT. America’s famous “G” Department, the Federal organisation for fighting lawlessness, may shortly he remodelled on (Scotland Yard lines, or at the very least many of its methods altered, when Mr Homer Cummings, Attorney- ' General of the United States, returns home. , Mr Cummings, who is the organiser of the “G” men, and one of their leaders has, been in London. He made an exhaustive investigation of the methods of Britain’s police services. He visited, the finger-print department, the i Criminals’ Records Office, the wireless department, and the offices of certain police stations. “We have also a more tangled legal system to work under. Here you ai--aest a man, charge him and sentence him almost right away. In the United States cases drag on sometimes so long that the prisoner gets away with it. “All that will no doubt be changed one day, but meantime the ‘G’ organisation has struck terror into the hearts of the gunmen and big racketeers. The ‘G’ men are winning the fight against the enemies of the public. One after another our ‘public enemies’ have been hunted down and either killed or imprisoned. That is what the ‘G’ men have done for the United States. “Now we have established a police school' at Washington, to which Federal and State police force can send their men to be trained. Already we are very up-to-date. We have a finger-print department. wljich is right up to the minute, and a general detective department which is fitted to deal with' any and every type of crime. “But we can still learn. That is why. I came over here.”