DETECTION OF CRIME.
innovations in victoria.
' WIRELESS ON POLICE CARS.
BLACK TRACKERS EMPLOYED
[FEOil ouk own* CORRESPONDENT-]
SYDNEY, Jan. 11.
Novel methods of detecting crinvo are) being instituted by the Victorian criminal investigation branch. Of these, the most important is the installation of wireless telephone sets on the police motor patrols. Arrangements have been completed "with Amalgamated Wireless {Australasia). Limited, .to equip the police ears with •'receiving" wireless telephones, and it is hoped that the new system will be in operation this week. Messages sent to police headquarters in the night for police assistance cannot be promptly conveyed to the motor patrol, which can only be located at certain intervals, It has frequently happened that, owing to- tho delay in communicating messages to the patrol, tlneves Lave left- the Fceno of robbery before the. police could arrive. Under the new system the members of the patrol will he promptly notified of the' report of a crime, and the locality "will be searched for thy thieves, and, if thought advisable, the houses of suspects promptly searched. Police does will later assist in the tracking of thieves committing robberies at night. Itis believed that they will' be of great assistance in the new methods of crime detection. Good work has also been done by the- two black trackers (aboriginals) recently brought from Queensland. Last week they traced a man who had wandered into the bush and become exhausted. It is intended to use these black trackers in other branches of police work. Comment- . ing on the usefulness of the black tracker, •a police officer has recalled the tracking of a man -who, after having committed a serious crime, walked on the railway sleepers to Ararat for a distance of seven mile??. Black trackers found that the man was wearing nails in the heel of bis boot, and that one nail was missing. They traced the man to a hut. and " later he j -was punished for the crime. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18300, 17 January 1923, Page 6
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