LESSONS IN CRIME
LEARNING HOW BURGLAR WORKS. From Our Own Correspondent. (By Air Mail). LONDON, Feb. 16. Every London policeman will be a detective soon. Lord Trenchard, the Police Chief, campaigning against the housebreakers, who have been so active lately, is going to send every constable to school to learn how to detect and bow the modern burglar works. Once a month lectures will bo given by special chief inspectors posted in each division to act as liasison officers between uniform and criminal investigation branches. Every . (policeman must attend—by order. It is aimed to make evt|:y one, whether on point duty ox* the beat, “burglar-conscious.” Later other subjects will be taught. As each new crime wave begins the lectures will switch to the “fashionable” form of robbery. The system introduced some- months ago by which young policemen ai*e temporarily attached to the 0.1. D. us aides to be extended. These men accompany experienced detectives on every sort of investigation and avo taught all the tricks of the trade. It is from them that the C.I.D men of he future will be chosen.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 6
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