Scene of Crime Section
117. Visits to scenes of crime numbered 1,137 and in the course of the year forty two identifications were made. Single prints filed under the Battley System rose to 33,430.
Photographic Section
118. Details of work undertaken by this section are set out below:
Photographs taken
Prints & Enlargements made
1957/58 1956/57
41,630
42,115
205,739
959,810
Documents micro-filmed for safekeeping Scenes of Crime attended by photographer Traffic Accidents attended by photographer Other accidents attended by photographer Unidentified bodies photographed at mortuaries
132,520
150,131
877
781
331
689
333
300
696
639
119. The use of the multilith printing machine at C.I.D. Head- quarters was responsible for a considerable decrease in the number of prints and enlargements made during the year. The photographic section now prepares half-tone negatives and these are printed in any required quantity on the multilith machine for circulation to stations and branches.
Handwriting Section
120. There was a decrease in the number of documents submitted to the section during the year. Details of the work undertaken are shown below:
1957/58
1956/57
Documents submitted for handwriting
examination
635
947
Identification of handwriting
37
35
Documents classified and filed
84
52
Typewritten documents submitted for
examination
85
176
Identification of typewriting
3
5
Typewritten documents filed
9
Criminal Records Office
121. The Criminal Records Office is the central registry for the C.I.D., dealing with the reception and distribution of all Criminal Investigation Department correspondence. It has the custody of all C.I.D. files and unexecuted warrants of arrest. The Criminal Records Office maintains a main nominal index and such subsidiary indices as 'suspected addresses', 'offences' and 'organizations'. During the period under review requests for record checks have averaged about 1,500
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