The Quarterly Record
| Published date | 01 July 1930 |
| Date | 01 July 1930 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X3000300312 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
THE
QUARTERLY
RECORD
PRESENTATION OF THE
KING'S
MEDAL
ON the 15th April (1930)
The
Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the Right
Honble. J. R. Clynes, M.P., presented to Inspector John Peake ofthe Sheffield
City Police, on behalf of His Majesty the King, the Gold Medal for the
winning essay in the Police Gold Medal Essay Competition of 1929.
The
presentation took place in the Deputation Room of the Home Office, White-
hall, before members of the Council of the Essay Competition and some of the
Police Council.
The
Right Honble. Sir John Anderson, G.C.B., Permanent
Under-Secretary of State, Mr. A. L. Dixon, C.B., C.B.E., and others of the
Home Office were also present.
The
Home Secretary, in congratulating Inspector Peake, referred to
the number of entries that had been received in the first year of the Competi-
tion from all parts of the Empire and to the satisfaction that he felt that these
also represented all ranks of the police.
The
Medal was designed by
Mr.
Langford Jones of the Royal Mint.
Adescription and an illustration appeared in the January 1930 issue of The
PoliceJournal.
The
winning essay is published at p. 383 of the present (July 1930) issue.
LECTURES AT THE CRIMINOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT VIENNA
ON the subject of the higher training of police officers, an indication was
given, in The Police Journal of April 1930, of the nature of the instruction
given at the University of
Turin
to advanced students in Criminology.
Similar classes have been held at the Criminological Institute of the State
Police in Vienna during the session 1929-1930.
The
following list of the
subjects of lectures may be of interest to police officers elsewhere:
(I)
Criminology: symptoms and diagnosis of criminology, general and
special characteristics, the technique of crime, the science of
detection.
(2) Anthropology, with special regard to forensic problems.
(3) Finger-prints.
(4) Study of handwriting.
(5) Criminal tactics.
(6) Biology of criminals.
(7) General chemistry.
(8) Technical chemistry for criminologists.
(9) Photography and micro-photography.
(10) Commercial knowledge and technique from the standpoint
of
criminologists.
(II)
Discourse on forensic medicine.
(12) Psychology of the criminal.
(13) Forensic psychiatry.
(14) Economics: theory of banking and of book-keeping from the
standpoint of criminologists.
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