The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-01
new POLICE
CRIME BUREAU
Meissner to Send Records
to Headquarters at
Washington.
IS NATIONAL AFFAIR

III the future the local police de-
partment will send it's photographs OF
criminals arrested and convicted here,
together with Bertillon measurements
and finger prints to the new bureau at
Washington, d. c.. instead of at LeaY-
enworth as formerly. The work Tor
the Kenosha department has been con-
Quoted by Secretary Emil Meissner,
who has co-operated with the national
bureau in the past, and will continue
the connection with the new bureau.
Information about the new bureau
was contained in a letter received by
Chief Logan here today from the
president of the international Police
Chiefs association, which reads as fol-
lows:
About New Bureau.
"This letter is to inform you that
the establishment in Washington of
central bureau, which the members
of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police have so long and Wig
orously championed, is now definite
reality.
Pursuant to resolutions unanimous
ly adopted at recent conventions of the
association, the board of governors,
together with members of the recently
appointed advisory board, on Septem-
Der 21st, 1923, transferred the Ma
tional Bureau of Identification to the
government, thereby forming the nue.
leus for the central bureau we so
earnestly advocated.
"At a conference with Attorney
General Daugherty, Director Burns of
the Department of Justice and mem
bers of the advisory board, it was de-
cided that the new bureau be officially
designated as "The Division of Grim
inal Identification and Police Informa-
tion-Departmen of JUSTICE Wash
ington, D. c., to which address all
communications pertaining to identif-
cation and police information should
be forwarded
1.-THE efficiency and future develop
ment of this division depends largely
upon the cooperative effort of every
police agency, and therefore you are
urgently requested to Immediately
commence forwarding all photographs,
fngerprints and criminal records to
the division. Superintendent E. Van
Buskirk is in charge of the division
and he has already been provided
with additional help by the attorney
general. 1t is the intention, as soon
as the large amount of work which
has accumulated in the National Blu
reau is cleared away, to install file
for lost, stolen and recovered property,
and when this branch of the division
is in operation photostatic copies of
bad checks and other forgeries will
be requested, handwriting expert en-
ployed and proper files kept. The at
torney general assures us that as soon
as arrangements can be made, the
franking privilege will be extended to
police agencies for the purpose of for
warding such information to the di-
vision. Arrangements have also been
the use of it's wireless for the divi-
sion in transmitting information in
relation to crimes and criminals
"In due time this division will be
in position to collect, compile, file
for reference and distribute police
information and intelligence of every
nature. In creating this concrete
neucleus marked progress has been
made toward the necessary systema-
thing of all police activities We are
thoroughly convinced that nothing of
greater public Importance has been
achieved in the annals of police his
tory its significance cannot be over
emphasized. With your support we
will eventually have police institu-.
ton at Washington which will be sec
ond to none in the world"