TO CATCH A THIEF

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 12

TO CATCH A THIEF

Devices On Display

Anyone who has secretly longed to throw a brick through a plate glass window had the chance to try, without incurring any penalty, at the international security, police and fire exhibition held recently in London. Reporting in a 8.8. C. broadcast on his own enjoyable visit. Peter Duval Smith said that he had attacked a sheet of toughened glass guarding some jewel* with ‘maniac blows” of brick and hammer, but the hammer just bounced off as if it was on rubber, and although he did at last make a small hole, by that time he eould certainly have been arrested if he had been making a real smash-and-grab raid. Other exhibits of the newest tricks to catch a thief included “invisible ray* that go round corner*; keyless locks" that as far as I could see even honest people could not open, “a device called silent sound, that rings up the police without making any noise ...”

“In every comer men ot propeny in bowler hat* were attacking safes, strong room*, armoured cars, unbreakableinto briefcase*; the air was loud with warning klaxon*, bells, gongs, buzzer* and hooters," he said.

The increasing use of plastics in agriculture was very evident at the International Plastics Exhibition held recently in London.—B.B.C.