LONDON’S CROOKS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 402, 8 April 1937, Page 6

LONDON’S CROOKS.

CORONATION’S “WHO’S WHO.” Scotland Yard Prepares. By Atf Mail. London. March 23. ■ A large illustrated “Who’s Who” of I notorious criminals is being issued by j Scotland Yard for the information of all police cfficers as a preliminary to ■ the safeguarding measures for the i Coronation. It contains thte names of all per- i sistent evildoers who may be expected to make a dishonest harvest from the visitors flocking to London during May. This record is a revised edition of the “Black List” published for the Jubilee two years ago. It has been brought right \ip to date, with many j additional names. Copies will go to each divisional 1 police station, i.i London, as well as ; to the police of the Channel and | North Sea ports. It is likely, there * will be also a smaller edition for i every police station in the Metropolitan area. . ' ‘Hotel Thieves. There are sections .for .confidence tricksters, foreign share pushers, ? hotel thieves, pickpockets and noton- s ous figures in the gambling and vice 1 traffic. 1 For the use of detectives at the 1 ports, there is a supplement reserved 1 for foreigners under suspicion of the ‘

Special Branch of the C.I.D. “sub-editing” has produced a book of great value for quick and easy reference. First appears a page of numbered and named pictures, photographs of each suspect in two positions, full face and in profile. Then on the reverse page details are printed. Their Methods. For example, tinder heading “Photograph No. 1, John James A——” is set out the criminal’s various aliases, his method of work, his former known haunts and associates, his previous convictions, and every fact which might be useful to a polio© officer. Frequently the details run to several pages. When one page of photographs has been dealt with in full, then another page of photographs is given, and so on until the end. - information is included which comes to Scotland Yard from police United States, the Dominions *ami the Continent.