INVESTIGATION OF CRIME
SCIENTISTS’ LIAISON WITH POLICE (From Our Parliamentary Reporter./ WELLINGTON. September 6. Specia. squaas oi fingerprint, photo graphic and ballistic experts and pathologists. who will work in coiiabora tion with the Department oi Scientifi. and Industr al Research in the investi gation of homicide and other seriou.crunes. are to be established by th. police Department. Ii his annual report on the Police Force, tabled in the House of Representatives to-uay ‘he Commissoiner oi Police <Mr J. Druce Young* says valu ab e assistance has •'een given by Gov ernmen. analysts «nd ether members of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, in complicated a’l-j cases. It is proposed to increase still further ‘he c’ose liaison between the two departments. Mr Youog -ays that 12 murders were r*>*>rted in New Zealand during 1919 with 13 in .he pievious year were ’.-.ade in *0 cases There •-»c ’njtances of attempted murfewer than in 1948,
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26211, 7 September 1950, Page 8
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