MORE ABOUT SCOTLAND YARD
HOUGH Scotland Yard is one of the most discussed institutions in the world, how many people know. exactly what it is and how it goes about its work? Andrew MacKenzie, a New Zealand journalist who now lives and works in London, set out to give the facts when he wrote three talks about the Yard for the NZBS. The first of these will be heard from 4YA at 7.15 p.m. on Thursday, July 2. Scotland Yard, Mr. MacKenzie says, isn’t a police station in the usual sense of the word. On the other hand, as headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police it is more than the headquarters of a famous detective forcefor only one of the four main departments deals with crime investigation. Still, after a brief mention of the work of the other three departments it is with criminal investigation that Mr. MacKenzie chiefly concerns himself. This department has nearly 1500 mem-bers-not far short of the strength of, the whole of the New Zealand police force-and in case you think London doesn’t need so many detectives, Mr.
MacKenzie takes you to look in on the work of some of the Yard’s several branches-the Special Branch, the Fly-: ing Squad, the Fraud Department, the Vice Squad and the Central Detective and Police Driving Schools. Then he begins a tour which includes the Black Museum, the map room, the ‘criminal record office (which includes the rogues’ gallery), the laboratory, the fingerprint department and the information room, Mr. MacKenzie thinks that an information room-something like an operations room in war time-to which all phone calls for the police are directed, will eventually become part of. the police system in New Zealand. Some other trends in crime detection in London which he thinks might profitably be adopted in New Zealand are discussed in his second talk, in which he also describes the way a murder investigation begins, and considers Scotland Yard techniques in use in a number of cases. The last talk is devoted to two cases handled by ex-Superintendent Robert Fabian-the case of Miss Dagmar Peters and the Antiquis case.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 26
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