POLICE UNIVERSITY.
NEW SCHEME FOR THE EMPIRE.
LONDON, Aug. 2. Plans are being worked out for a police university for the Empire. It will be built probably at Cheshunt, replacing the Metropolitan Police College at Hendon. „ , The Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare) indicated that it will train police cadets from all parts of the Empire and also "ive specialist courses to experienced men. Home Office experts arc reported to be planning tne details in co-operation with Dominion and colonial representatives in London. It is expected that the university will be the centre for all departments of scientific crime-detection experiments. With new fingerprint apparatus, it is proposed that a complete record of all British criminals’ prints should be kept. Ultra-violet rays will he increasingly used. The Police Commissioner (Sir Philip Game) and Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the great expert on forensic medicine, will deliver lectures.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 9
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