Recent Books
| Published date | 01 March 1969 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6904200304 |
| Date | 01 March 1969 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
possible to make urgent inquiry which enables the section to guide
the inquirer in the right direction.
Examples of the subjects currently under examination are tele-
vision; hidden object search equipment; noise measuring equipment;
devices for measuring tyre treads ; night vision equipment; varieties
of car
roof
signs and beacons; bullet proof garments; projection
equipment; road block equipment; conspicuous materials; and voice
printing equipment.
Items under development are: hidden objects search equipment;
electronic aids to crime investigation; optical aids to crime investiga-
tion; photographic aids to crime investigation; and devices to
improve police vehicles' conspicuity.
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:The Prosecutor,Harrap.30s.
This is the biography of Mervyn P. Unlike the majorit y of such
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Pugh, prosecuting solicitor for the ments , his was not as a member of the
Birmingham City Police, and also town clerk's staff; he was employed
Agent for the Director of Public directly under the authority of the
Prosecutions from 1924 to 1958. watch committee. This committee
The Royal Commission on the commendably left nothing to chance
Police in 1962, "deplored the regular and, for a week, Mr. Pugh conducted
employment of the same police officers his prosecutions under the eye of both
as advocates for the prosecution" and the chief constable of Birmingham and
recommended the appointment of a the chairman of the watch committee,
prosecuting solicitor for every force before he was offered the post.
where this was not already the practice. Chapter Vcontains a record of the
There is at least one large city force attempt to kidnap Lord Nuffield in
where there are still difficulties in fully 1938. The details of this crime, long
implementing the Royal Commission's since forgotten, are interest ing and not
recommendation, because of the fail- a little amusing , both in the way the
ure to attract solicitors at the salary plot was arranged and the theatrical
offered but, after reading this book , no circumstances in which it was carried
one can doubt the wisdom of the out. Two chief constables were in-
Royal Commission's recommendation. volved and if, as the book suggests, it
Mr. Pugh's appointment as prose- was a disappointment to the chief
cuting solicitor is in itself of interest. constable of Oxfordshire that Lord
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