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giving of any such treatment, advice, or attendance as is usually performed or given by dentists, and any person who performs any operation or gives any treatment, advice, or attendance on or to any person as preparatory to or for the purpose of or in connection with the fitting, insertion, or fixing of artificial teeth shall be deemed to have practised dentistry within the meaning of " the Act.
8. The Dental Board is entitled to the co-operation and assistance of the Police in carrying out its statutory duties. Any person who is found practising dentistry in contravention of the Act should be warned by the Police and reported to the Registrar. Dental Board of the United Kingdom, 44, Hallam Street, London, W. 1.
9. In the event of a dental practitioner being convicted, notice of the conviction should be sent to the Dental Board at the above address (see page 14).
Forgery of Bank Notes and Treasury Notes.
10. Instructions have been issued to Banks that any forged Bank note or Treasury note that is detected should be handed at once to the Police, with a statement, if possible, of the name and address of the person who passed it.
11. When a forged note comes into the possession of the Police, inquiries should be set on foot at once with a view to tracing, so far as possible, the history of the note and discovering the source from which it emanated.
12. As persons who pass forged notes to Banks are usually innocent agents, tact and discretion should be used in making inquirics of or concerning them.
13. The note itself should be sent as soon as possible to the Com- missioner of Police of the Metropolis, New Scotland Yard, for compari- son with the records of other forged notes which are kept there. The covering letter should give the date when the note was presented, the name and address of the Bank which received it, and any other particulars available. If it is necessary to retain the note for a time for local inquiry, a full description with photograph (if possible) of it should be sent to the Commissioner in advance.
14. If local inquiries result in information which appears likely to lead to an arrest, the facts should be reported at once to the Commissioner, who, if necessary, will send an officer, possessing information as to places where other notes of similar type have been disposed of. to assist in the inquiries.
15. As regards forged Treasury notes (not Bank notes), the Board of Inland Revenue is prepared to place at the disposal of the Police, free of charge, the experience of the officers of the Director of Stamping, who possess the necessary knowledge of various processes of printing, are conversant with the methods adopted by skilled forgers, and are ready to make investigations and to give expert evidence in Court. The services of local printers or engravers should not be enlisted for this purpose, or for taking specimen prints from plates seized, or for giving evidence, not only because such action may extend the number of people made acquainted with methods of forging, but also because
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investigation and the giving of evidence are matters for experts with very special knowledge. If expert assistance is required. this should be stated, therefore, when the note is forwarded to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and he will at once inform the Director of Stamping at Somerset House.
16. This procedure applies only to skilled forgeries; not to rough and clumsy imitations.
17. Public notices with regard to alleged forging of Treasury notes should not be issued without previous submission through the Home Office to the Treasury, as it is important that suspicion should not be aroused unnecessarily nor incorrect information published.
Fraudulent appeals for charity by itinerant musicians, &c.
18. The Police should investigate the bona fides of strolling musicians. players, singers, pavement artists and others who, by displaying written notices or otherwise, appeal to public sympathy as being discharged soldiers who have been disabled in the war and have not had the help they deserve from the State. If such a case is found to be genuine, the man should be referred to his local War Pensions Committee. If it is not genuine and evidence is available, the man should be charged with obtaining or attempting to obtain money by false pretences. Care should be taken, of course, to avoid any appear- ance of subjecting service pensioners to supervision by the Police.
Gaming machines.
19. The Court of Criminal Appeal in Rex e. Peers (1917, 81 J.P. 143), held that the keeping of any house in which automatic gaming machines are used constitutes an offence against the Betting Act, 1853. Action should be taken by the Police for the suppression of such machines. In the case cited the machine used was a clown" machine. The essential feature of automatic gaming machines is that a player after placing a coin in a slot has a chance of winning a ticket entitling him to purchase goods, &c.
Lotteries.
20. Public lotteries (including sweepstakes) are prohibited by law and should be prevented by the Police. On the other hand, the Police should not interfere with a private or quasi-private lottery, honestly conducted. By a quasi-private lottery it is intended to signify a lottery promoted by a genuine club or other society in which tickets can be obtained by or through members only; such lotteries are not publicly advertised, since no invitation is addressed by the promoters to the general public to subscribe; usually, too, the prizes are paid by the promoters to a member only. A lottery promoted by a club but open to members of affiliated clubs should not be regarded as a quasi-private lottery and penalties have been recovered in the High Court in respect of two such lotteries, the defendants having pleaded guilty. The proceedings in these cases were reported in The Times newspaper of the 27th May, 1924.
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