BAFFLING CRIMINALS

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15035, 5 September 1922, Page 2

BAFFLING CRIMINALS

INTERNATIONAL SCHEME. FINGER-PRINTS BY WIRELESS.' Commissioner Richard Enright, head of New York's police organisation, is conferring with Scotland Yard on international problems of crime prevention and detection. Mr Enrlght's chief object in visiting London, he told a Daily Chronicle representative, is to place before the authorities a scheme for closer organisation between the police force of* America and Europe. He has already laid his proposals before the police chiefs in several European countries, and he says that everywhere he, has found that they were received with "the greatest enthusiasm'.' £r "What we want immediately, he added,'"is the attendance at our Police Conference in New York, in September, of the heads,of the police systems of the world." Another international means of cooperation agairfst crime which Mr Enright sees almost ready for application, is Wireless photography, which will enable portraits or finger-prints to be transmitted in a few hours to any part of the world. At present there must be a delay of several days before Scotland Yard can get such important material transmitted from New York or Chicago. ' Mr Enright gave a description of the wireless telephone scheme he has originated as part of the police service, and in operating which he has secured the co-operation of police authorities in all large cities within a radius of 1000 miles of New York. "Wireless telephony," he explained, "is going to add enormously to police efflciencv. We. shall have a broadcast radius that will reach all our police stations, and, in addition, there will be special officers stationed at various points. "When a hold-up, or any other crime occurs in New York, we shall be able Immediately to circulate all particulars necessary to enable every constable wilhin our radius to recognise the criminal if he comes his way. "As we shall have officers in booths at every main outlet from The city, and at every ferry and bridge, each will get the information. The criminal will be in the position of a rat in his run—wherever he tries to get away he will find a dog waiting for him."