WAR ON CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20723, 17 November 1930, Page 10

WAR ON CRIME.

WORLD-WIDE CAMPAIGN. POLICE CHIEFS' PLANS. Plans for a world-wide - campaign against international crime wero recently being prepared by the foremost police chiefs of every nation in readiness for submission to an international police congress to bo held at Antwerp in a few weeks' time. It will bo tho greatest gathering of detective forces over assembled, and war will bo declared on gunmen, dope traffickers, super-swiiul-lers and forgers, jewel thieves, cardsharpers and confidence tricksters.

Scotland Yard was to be represented by Mr. Normal) Kendal, one of tho chiefs of the Metropolitan Police. His intention was to discuss with tho world's police chiofs the latest methods in use for dealing with crime in "Britain. The polico forces of tho world's capitals now work together in closer co-operation than ever before. Almost every hour throughout the day and night* Scotland Yard i.s in touch with New York, Paris, Berlin, or Madrid about some international crime, criminal project, or world-wide menace.

Wireless has speeded up criminal investigation work enormously during the past few years. Now the polico chiefs of the <Vorld propose establishing a secret wave-length for the exclusive uso of criminal investigation departments to carry on their work.

An international committee of police experts has been secretly at work for months past fixing the range of the wireless wave which will bo used in tho battle against crime. It will bo a wavelength between 3000 and 8000 metres, and a secret code, to bo agreed upon at the conclave of police chiefs, will bo inaugurated. Tho formation, of an international flying squad, modolled on tho lines of Scotland Yard's celebrated mobile army of detectives, and moving constantly around the world in a ceaseless guerrilla _ warfare against roving gangs of criminals, was to be discussed at tho congress. Another object will be to make it increasingly difficult for the modern "Raffles" to dispose of his haul of gems ir any part of the world.