Death on the Road
| Published date | 01 January 1948 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4802100110 |
| Author | F. H. Kent |
| Date | 01 January 1948 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
(b)
The
panels of the Finger
Print
Form are
cut
out
beforehand
and are slid into a specially shaped piece of brass (Fig. 2).
This
helps to ensure fully rolled prints, as the form in its
holder is rolled round the stiffened digit.
(c)
These slips bearing the impressions are then pasted on to
the F.P. form in their correct order.
In
order to minimise the risk taken by those who handle dead
bodies (for taking fingerprints or other purposes), the following rules
should invariably be observed:
I.
The
corpse should be handled as little as possible, and care
should be taken
that
no accidental contact between any part
of the corpse and the officer's clothing takes place.
2.
Officers who have any cuts or other injuries in the skin of
their hands should entirely avoid contact with a corpse.
3.
The
hands should be thoroughly washed with soap and water
(a little disinfectant being added to the water, if available)
as soon as possible after a corpse has been handled.
4. Officers should be careful not to touch anything-particularly
avoiding touching their own faces or
clothing-after
handling
a corpse until after their hands have been thoroughly washed.
TIPSTAFF
Death on the Road
By
INSPECTOR
F. H.
KENT
East
Suffolk Police, Stowmarket
MUCH has been written and said in recent months concerning
the number of persons killed and injured in road accidents, and
in the main quite a lot has been done in relation to road improvements,
lectures to schoolchildren and general propaganda for road safety,
whilst all too little attention has been given to the driver of the vehicle
who has caused the accident.
Quite a lot is being done in certain directions. All kinds of advice
calling attention to the need for care on the roads is to be found in the
Press, accompanied by illustrations showing exactly how one should
ride, drive or walk on the roads. How many people take any serious
notice of this?
It
would probably be safe to say that, taken at random,
not one person in a hundred could quote any of the phrases or describe
anyone
of the illustrations.
Huge posters find their way on to our already unsightly hoardings.
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