POLICE UNIVERSITY.
FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE. PLANS BEING WORKED OUT. SCIENTIFIC CRIME DETECTORS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel Copyright. LONDON, August 5. Plans are being worked out for a Police University for the Empire. ' It will be built, probably, at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, replacing the Metropolitan Police College, at Hendon. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, has Indicated that it will train police cadets from all parts of the Empire and also give specialist courses to experienced men. Home Ofllce experts are reported to be planning the 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. Uutra-violet rays will be Increasingly used. The Police Commissioner, Sir Philip Game, and Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the great expert on forensio medicine, will deliver lectures. There will be a twoyear course for cadets. Three Indian students have already attended the present college at Hendon.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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175POLICE UNIVERSITY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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