The Washington times., 1922-12-21
NEEDS new
CABINET
PLACE
Experts on Capitals Force
Comment on Organization
Proposed by Calder.

S0ument on OrHanixation
Proposed by Calder.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.
generalization Of metropolitan
Police departments and other
policing agencies Of the country,
through cooperation secured by
. National Bureau Of Police main
tanned BY the Government at
Warrington, 10 seen by local police
heads % the logical outcome Of
the establishment Of the National
Bureau Of Police proposed by Sem
etor Calder Of New York to the
Senate on Monday.
Place In Cabinet.
Enlarging the Presidents Cabinet
oy the inclusion Of a Secretary of
Police. and the maintenance and
operation Of the National Bureau
OF Police assam integral factor inde-
pendent Of the Department Of JUS
tice. are regarded as Indispensable to
Its successful operation.
Formation Of State departments Of
police under the DIRECTION Of State
eAASoSOAo "a PuOuC odlcsy 6uu tuo
paseAge Of State laws requiring tho
cooperation Of all State policing fac.
tors with the State police head.
quarters are considered necessary
steps toward the upbuilding Of an
efficient national police organisation
which, operating through the Ma
tional bureau at Washington. would
be free from Federal control of local
police departments.
with the Importance Of the po-
lice problem constantly increasing
1t IL inevitable that eventually q
national bureau of police here must
be established. This bureau should
be maintained by the Government
and should be made q great clearing
house for police business" said
Major and Superintendent of Police
Daniel Sullivan today.
Must Be Independent.
'Furthermors. It should be a de.
partment by itself without control
partment. Here should be main
tanned q national bureau of identifi-
cation, where the finger prints,
photographs and other marks Of iden-
tification Of all criminals should be
available for purposes Of quick iden-
tification. tf.3
"Of courSs, tho bureau should be
outside of political control and un-
der the direction of q thoroughly ex-
perienced head Our own bureau Of
Identification u, I think ~ is con.
ceded. ono of the best In the coun-
try. Similar bureaus are main
tained by police departments in all
Of the larger cities. Between them
there IL always q certain amount Of
cooperation. But 1t IL by no means
as wide as II should be. The only
solution to the quick Identification
Of criminals il through q national
bureau of Identification with which
every policing agency in the country
co-operates at all times"
i. Aid in the capture of criminals,
Major Sullivan declared, 10 one Of
the most important functions q ma
tional bureau OF police can render.
The recent hold-up in Denver Of the
truck Of the Federal reserve bank
by q band of gunmen. who are still
being sought by the police Of the
country, was used as an Illustration
of what q national bureau of police
could be expected to accomplish.
Up to the present no -usable de-
scription Of the men composing the
bandit gang has been broadcasted by
the police. Its members could be
walking the streets Of Washington
in perfect safety from arrest today
for all the local police know about
them.
Broadcast Descriptions.
This Is true, it 10 said, of other
leading cities. Had a national bu-
reau OF police, with its cooperative
system in force existed when the
hold-up took place, a description Of
the gyfnrnen would have been at the
bureau headquarters within an hour
, of the commission of the crime. and
this In turn, with any possible
'.tip9" as to- the identity Of the men
which the bureau could furnish
would have been broadcasted
throughout the country. 1t would
have put the entire policing force of
the country on the watch within two
hours, with the certainty that the
possibility Of the gang escaping
would have been greatly lessened.
Oraanizatio nof the State bureaus
of police under the direction Of State
directors of public safety was in
dorsed by Major Sullivan az consti
tuting the workable link between
municipal police departments and the
national bureau of police.
"A system Of that kind carried
out by each State would insure
the completest cooperation possible
TO obtain, and II would necessarily
be OF the intelligent kind" de-
clared the major. 1T would mean
nationwide policing without inter-
ference with local police organisa-
tion and would avoid exciting hos
tility to the system"
Raising the National Bureau Of
Police to the dignity of a Federal
Department with representation In
the Presidents Cabinet by q Secre-
tary of police was foreseen by In
spector clifford L. Grant, chief Of
the detective bureau.
There should be fusion between
the National Bureau of Police with
its national bureau Of Identified
ton, and any other department Of
government" said Inspector Grant.
"This could best be effected
through the addition to the Cabinet
OF q secretary Of police. Once es-
tabIished, the bureau must not fail
81 its aims through inadvertent CIR