Among Our Contributors
| Published date | 01 July 1965 |
| Date | 01 July 1965 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6503800717 |
| Subject Matter | Among Our Contributors |
FORGERY AND FORGERY
The
RCMP
Quarterly records the occasion when a member of this force
received a complaint from the manager of a large retail store concerning a
suspected forged $10 bill. The policeman,
not
having a note of his own for a
similar denomination with which to compare the alleged forgery, asked the
manager to supply one, and on comparing the two, was unable to find any
visible difference between them.
Fortunately, the policeman in the case did
not
accept this evidence as final
and
had
further inquiries made.
It
subsequently transpired that the bill produced
by the manager for comparison was also forged.
CONCEALING
THE
EVIDENCE
The same magazine also tells the story of the known narcotic addict who was
arrested in connexion with narcotics offences and lodged in the police station
overnight. On the following morning the arrested man confessed that just prior
to his arrest he had swallowed a glass eyedropper barrel, ahypodermic needle and
arubber bulb. The truth of the confession was confirmed by X-ray.
ELECTRONIC
FINGERPRINTS
Equipment, installed in a police department in the mid-west of the U.S.A.
to transmit fingerprints electronically between district stations and the bureau of
identification at headquarters, has reduced transmission time to six minutes,
it is stated in the F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. Under the former system of
transmitting prints and records by department messenger there had been a delay
of approximately six hours before an arresting officer had received returns from
the prints of his prisoner.
The
equipment consists of a modified telephoto printer
that
transmits pictures
of the linked impressions from the district station to headquarters, and the result
of the search back from headquarters to the station.
JUNIOR
FLAMETHROWER
The Law Enforcement Bulletin also givesdetails of a new weapon that has been
found in use by juveniles in California. The weapon, a flamethrower in miniature
but
with a highly dangerous potential, it is claimed, is a pressurized can of
metallic spray paint with a wire extending six inches in front of the spray jet
and a candle inserted in a loop in the wire. When the candle is lighted and pressure
applied to the nozzle, the flame spurts out some three to four feet from the nozzle
of the can.
AMONG
OUR
fjONTRIBUTORS
Born at Castleford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Detective Sergeant
J.
H.
Bulmer joined the Metropolitan Police in 1936, and served with that Force
until 1938 when he transferred to the City of Bradford Police.
After aperiod
of
uniform patrol duty he joined the Royal Air Force and took
up flying duties in 1942. After being shot down in 1944, he became a prisoner
of
war and remained so until the end of hostilities.
On return to his force he was posted to the criminal investigation department.
Promoted to detective sergeant in 1960, his work has been concentrated on Special
Branch matters and this has enabled him to build up an intimate knowledge
of
aliens and people from the Commonwealth who are resident in Bradford.
The
large immigrant population of the city presents many interesting
and
varied aspects of police work and he has a fund of knowledge on the subject.
Supt. S. Waller joined the Rochdale borough police in 1929. Before completing
10 years service he had reached the
rank
of
inspector-one
of the youngest of this
rank in the country. During the second world war he was in charge of thewar duties
department, and in 1949 was promoted chief inspector and placed in charge of
the uniform patrol branch. His present appointment dates from July, 1953.
Mr. Waller has been awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished
service outside the force; he served on the committees of two local literary and
scientific societies, and is vice-president of the local Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
He is
author
of Cuffs and Handcuffs (1957), published in connexion with the
centenary celebrations of his force.
351 July 1965
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