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Cockney. Her formidable ebarges young women and girls as nearly he possible incoprigtbie-know that whatever they do or say, and how. ever great their daring, she is not afraid of them. Nos in she afraid to trust their commonsense,
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Little barbed wire here; minimum of locked doors: rooms" here, hot cells bright paint and consulss interest and activity,
WAR ON CRIME,
DETECTIVES' NEED OF CO-OPERATION.
CLEARING HOUSE FOR POLICE REPORTS.
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The ared for closet co-operation between the detectives forces of the country, in order to cope with the modera eriminal, is stressed by Sir Llewelyn "Atshorley.H. M. Inspec
tor of Constabulary, in his annual report on the police forces of Eng-
TOUCH LOTS TO REFORM. land and Wales,
It is not all magy. These young women are definitely the tough lots that other people havestried to re- form and failed. The resntage of aures is high. but the wor difficult. Etched in my memory is the brightly-coloured day on the amall model farm that is staffed by volunteers from the institution.
Two girls in leggings and khaki Hooks are cbasing pigs, home from an unbarbed field. Helping them with advice in the Governor of H.M. Convict Prison for Women And head of the Borstal Institute for Girls She fually rounds the live stock, compliments the girl in charge on her spotless dairy, and then spies another young woman aulking away in a corner of the ahzod ...and strides towards her. Henvens, A, what's the matter with you "
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Whereas until recent years palico progress had been extremely low, ho says, to-day મ
spirit of enter- prise prevails pretty generally."
Scientific nid are being called in e inereaking degree," he con tinues. The practical use of a microscope in the earlier stages of an investigation may provide clues which in the past were not known to exist.
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The use of photography is not. limited to the taking of criminal likenesses. but is often of great assistance to the investigator and forms an indispensable help to Courts of Justice and others whose judicial conclusions must be drawn as a distance from the scene of the incident."
But the general state of urime detection, Sir Llewelyn considers,
points to the need of more effec- tual organisation of a co-operasive kind, if mutual aid requirementa are to be "properly met and thoroughly satisfactory state of efficiency to exist."
Averted gaze and a murmur hot very casily dispeller is this "grouse," apparently; the silence' grows difficult. Mis Barker smiles and then bends down to the sulky ¦ang, "'A—~, do you remember the first cakes you cooked 7. Tarted out like load? Didn't we laugh"
To meet the development of the Slowly, in spite of herself, the motor bandit, the police activities girl grins and then sniggers.. 2', fand equipment had been intensifed. The Governor gors dh: "A--and improved. But while the pre- knows I know what drudgery inventive side of police establishments Hike she knows I did seven years with mechanical aids had been, able hard"
at housework and cooking fairly successfully to cope with the for a sick mother before I came here needs of the times, the Bamp effec
she knows I know what's tiveness of assistaner had not been. what?"
present in like degree on the de- tective side. Calls for detective LIKE MISTRESS AND MAIDS.
work from other forces had become The atmosphere is decidedly 'n daily experienca better. "Spoile, A-" suggests the Governor, I like you better when you smile: it suits you!"; And, leaving her smiling with the zest, we go again into the locked and barred gates of the prison itself, through steel corridors into awing that houses the life sentence women! 24
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Gaps in Information.
The case for successful results," suyu Sir. Llewelyn, must depend in the main on good information, and it is just there where thy pro- sent system is being so highly tried and becomes entitled to every bit of help that can be given to it. There, in a room jike, a house- Where a clearing house institution keeper's room, in a big house, they has been at the disposal of neigh- at round their hearth. Dinner was bouring forces the state of detection being prepared, and it smelled and | has" correspondingly improved. taste good There were very few venture to express the hope that of them, underton, the lady of the this organisation may be extended rabbits among them. They stood so as to reach other forces in a when ww entered, and talked similar way." naturally enough with the Governor.
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Valuable work has been done, he. Except for certain important dif. emphasis, by way of organising o ferences the décor of that scene sound mutual aid scheme for dent was that of a mistress and hering with fugitive road offenders maida in an old-fashioned and and criminals. This, he considera, happily-run Big House. The doors will secure the arrest of wanted may be locked, but it is intended persons.
to make those belts and keys a shelter as well as a prison to the inmates.
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"I have been astonished," Sir Llewelyn declares, "to find on oc casions the gaps which have occur red during transmission of import- ant crime messages where the cir pulation has been limited to an arbitrarily selected list of places to be informed."
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Over fifty trunks were taken by aim of adventure. The King wed his inspection of the Shanghai installations, particularly as they Douglas Fairbanks and his three one of the rulers who entertained trouble zone, Admiral Kiyotans have been generally pronounced to companions in the expedition for Doug and his party during their Abo, a member of the Supreme Milj- Aanka, Mar, 20-The Osaka shot a success wherever they had been the World in 60 Minutes." The adventure and thrills which take of the Navy returned to the capital his latest adventure fim, "Around enmera expedition in a search for tary Council and former Minister Ken Kaisha has ahnounced that the
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