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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 8

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-Own Correspondent)

Possible Force For Crime Prevention EXPERT TRAINING

(By Air Mail—

LONDQN, Feb. 8. Britain may soon have G-inen— -a national detectiv© force on similar lines to the famous Aiflerican anti-vice organisation. It is being discussed in police circles following the Home Office decision to mov© Hendon Police College and accommodate recruits from Scottish and provincial forces. ^ National co-operation is urged to select young men of higher education and showing promise at criminal detection for a body with the roving powers of arrest given the American Federal agent. Often, Ecotland Yard are not called in immediately in provincial crimes. The suggested force would be under the Director of Public Prosecutions on whose orders it would take over and work in co-operation with the local authority. Sponsors of th© scheme pomt out that the geueral cost of crime in this country is" £27,000,000 a year, each person charged costing the State £42. For some time the Home Office has been considering a medico-legal institut© in London where pathologists and U.I.D. men would be trained by experts such as Sir Bernard Spilsbury.