The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-14
BY KENT WATSON 0nternational News Service Staff COrreSpOndent).

New York. Aug. 12.-A national collaborative agency among Amerl- can police departments is advocated by Richard E. Enright, New York Police Commissioner as the most feas- ible means of lesesning the crime mania that continues to sweep the country.
 '"The national organization of the police forces of the country, not as a department of the Government, but as linked bodies between which CO., operation shall be perfect and which shall help and be helped by the Fed eral Government" declares Enright, will be the eventual solution of the problem of crime control in the United States
 Congress, asserts the head of Amer ica's largest police force, should take definite action toward the establish ment of a National Police Bureau-an organization that will be centralized, studious and cooperative, with ap- propriate functions that should fn- clude the following:
 Proposed Functions Outlined.
 To gather and collect, receive. com pile, collate study, investigate and file for reference, and properly distribute appropriate police authorities or the and make available to interested or
 like police information and criminal 1nIellSenCe CIlIouShouI lIiS and to act as a national clearing house of crime records, criminal identifica- tion, crime statistics and of informa- tion respecting crimes of international concern.
 To investigate, conduct studies of and make recommendations upon the standardization of police methods and procedure throughout the country. To investigate, conduct studies of and make recommendations up the standardization, so far as may be practical throughout the country, of street and highway traffic laws. rules and regulations for making such laws effective, and the system of signs, sig nals and guides pertaining to traffic. To maintain contact between the police authorities of this country and the police departments of foreign countries.
 To conduct a criminal laboratory Should Not Make Arrests. 'In my Judgment said Enright, Ca National Police Bureau should not be an agency through which arrests are | made. nor should its functions be l merged with those of an organization engaged in making arrests and crim- | inal investigations. It should not ex- erciSe control over nor interfere in, the autonomous administration and contro of police departments or other police agencies, whether, municipal, State or Federal.
 "It is conceded that individual po- | lice departments have increased in | numerical strength and have become | more efficient. But from the stand point of collective effort police effect
 iveness in this country has not ad- | vanced. No facilities for its advance ment have been available.
 'It is generally known that there | is a large number of separate collect | ions of finger prints in this country
 and that by far the most of these are
 in the hands of police departments
 But it is not equally appreciated that | these collections can never be really l effective, nor can any organization now collecting finger prints be effect i've until some well resigned agency is created, financed and operated by
 the Federal Government to collect
 file and make available to all proper | authorities all records of criminal Identification throughout the country. | Praises European System. | Commissioner Enright, who recent ly returned from Europe, has made a study of police. methods in London | Paris, Berlin, Rome and other large cities of the mother continent.
 Criminal statistics have been com piled in England on uniform prin- | ciples' he asserts "and in substantial. | 1y the same form for thirty years Their collection and study is consid- | cred of national importance Scotland Yard is the clearing house for all in | formation regarding criminal identi- 1 fication. So it goes with most of the
 European countries.
 Tt is imperative that somenhinz