FINGER-PRINTS "DADDY"
SCOTLAND YARD SYSTEM HIGH PRAISE FROM G-MAN Mr. Edmund P. Coffcv, assistant-chief of the United States G-Men, returned to America lately full of ideas from the police departments of Europe and of admiration for the British C.I.D. The strongest impression he took across the Atlantic is of Britain's finger-print system. As he puts it, "Scotland Yard is the 'daddy' of fingerprint crime detection." Mr. Coffey has been in every European country as the emissary of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the chief G-Marw He thinks that with the growth of the "international criminal" co-operation between the police forces of the world is more essential than ever. "I found during my tour," ho said, "that every country excelled in one subject. If the best in every police department was amalgamated wo. should have the perfect anti-crime machine." In a reference to the G-Man as he is presented to the British public in films, Mr. Coffey said: "Only fivft per cent of our work is of the spectacular nature exploited by Hollywood. The rest is humdrum enough."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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176FINGER-PRINTS "DADDY" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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