Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-20

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With the world growing smaller
every year because of the improved
and rapid means of transportation
from one part of the globe to the
other the detection of crime and the
capture of great criminals is becom-
ing international in character. More
and more are the police officials Of the
various great nations of the world
drawing closer together in the effort
to check crime and to detain the law
breaker so that no longer is the Grim
inal of one country able to hide him
self within the borders of another
nation.
1t is predicted that some day an in
ternauonal police force will be estab-
iished for the capture of big criminals,
and that New York will be the head
quarters for this most intricate sys-
tenn of detective machinery, in fact
already that city occupies a leading
position in respect to the policing of
the world, and the new and magnifi-
cent building which is now being COM
pleted will give her the accommoda-
ytions and facilities for carrying on the
work and the like of which no other
city of the world has anything to COM
pare.
Built primarily for the needs of
New York city alone 1t nevertheless
is of such size and its arrangement
and equipment so complete as to en-
able 1t to fill a worldwide mission. AL
ready the police force of New York
city has taken first place for efficiency
in the capture of criminals escaped
from foreign shores, so that New York
has come to be the best place In the
world for the big crooks to keep away
from, and metropolitan detectives are
constantly travelling between this and
foreign centers, transferring wrong
doers and studying methods. Very
close cooperation already exists be-
tween the various forces.
The greatest headquarters abroad
is England's famous Scotland Yard,
group of buildings which together are
larger than New York's new building
, d which have the record of having
handled 100 900 prisoners and ticket
,of-leave men. But all of London's po-
lice work centers in Scotland Yard,
whereas in New York each borough
has a sub-headquarters of it's own.
Combining the American headquarters
with the central stations of Brooklyn,
Bronx, Queens and Richmond, you
have an aggregate unequaled in size,
as the Manhattan headquarters is un-
equaled in efficiency.
The cosmopolitan character Of New
York's population has had much to do
with making it an international police
center With it's criminals from prac-
tically every country in the world, it
has been forced to employ men speak
ing practically as many languages and
many more dialects and some mem
bers of the force are kept constantly
at some school of languages to equip
them for special work among t6e for
eigners.
This alone has linked the depart
ment very closely to those of most of
the foreign lands. Within one hour
after the suspects in the murder of
Father Kasper Remembered as the
trunk MYSTERY were known to the
New York detective bureau, the world
had been circled by cable with their
full description. Within "a hours they
had been traced, and they were ar
rested the following week; one in
Marseilles, another in Constantinople,
and third in Algiers.
International police cooperation has
also gone far in the fight on the Black
Hand, Hunchakist, Malta and other
foreign organizations Of criminals.
Several European governments have
sent their detectives to America and
put them at the service of the Ameri-
can icials in this work. This has
already resulted in the practical ex-
termination of the Armenian Huncha-
ksts, whose outrages recently stirred
the machinery of justice to effective
work.
New York's new police headquarters
is 308 feet long, 80 feet wide at one
end and 60 feet vide at the other. The
architectural scheme is the Georgian
styIe of the eighteenth century,
handsome building radically different
from that usually associated with po-
lice work On the central dome is a
wireless telegraph apparatus so that
the police may be in communication
with incoming and outgoing ocean
steamers 1t is also to be used In the
very unlikely event of the structure
haing hesieaed by q mob and the tele-
graph wires cut.