THEFTS ON BEACHES.
BATHING COSTUME POLICE. Beach detectives who wear bathing costumes are being employed at houth Coast resorts in England to catch thieves who specialise iu thefts among holiday crowds. Pickpockets, bag snatchers and thieves who rifle clothing left in bathing havo all been making rich hauls. Many women who have slumbered in the attcrnoon sunshine have wakened to find their handbags, often containing all their holiday money, gone. Plain clothes and uniformed policemen have been unable to put a, stop to tho thieving. They are too distinctive among the gaily dressed holiday crowds. So the bathing costume police patrols have come into being. They pretend to go to sleep on the beach, but all the time they are waiting and watching for the thieves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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126THEFTS ON BEACHES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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