Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 56 Article 17 Issue 2 June Summer 1965 Police Science Technical Abstracts and Notes Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc Part of the Criminal Law Commons, Criminology Commons, and the Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons Recommended Citation Police Science Technical Abstracts and Notes, 56 J. Crim. L. Criminology & Police Sci. 260 (1965) This Criminology is brought to you for free and open access by Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons. POLICE SCIENCE TECHNICAL ABSTRACTS AND NOTES Edited by Joseph D. Nicol* Abstractors Jan Beckt J. D. Chastain§ Ordway Hiltont William E. Kirwan [I The Railroad Police-Thomas F. Coon, The ment, coding systems and preliminary forms, Bulletin, The Society of Professional Investigators, staffing, and the maximum usage of the system's 8-13 (January 1965) surveys the activity and the possibilities are among topics discussed in the legislative background under which the railroad second section. (OH) police operate. (OH) International Conference on Alcohol and Traffic Tranquilizer Guns-Potential Law Enforcement Safety-The 1965 conference will be held at Equipment-Gustave Ullrich and Irving C. Han- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana De- sen, The Bulletin, The Society of Professional In- cember 6-10 and is open to all persons in the legal, vestigators, 14-17 (January, 1965) describe tran- medical, enforcement, and research fields. The quilizer or knock-out pellets which had been conference is similar to those held in Stockholm, experimented with by various police departments. 1958, Toronto, 1960, and London, 1962. The They describe the usefullness of these weapons in divisions are: (1) alcohol and road accidents; subduing, without bodily harm, suspects who are (2) pharmacological, physiological, and psycho- "temporarily berserk." (OH) logical aspects; (3) the drinking driver; (4) chemi- cal tests for intoxication; (5) comparative aspects; Essex Will Film Drinking Driver-Milton (6) enforcement aspects; and (7) legal aspects. For Honig, The New York Times, 35 (December 18, enrollment, or additional information, write Prof. 1964). A featured news item describes the use of Robert F. Borkenstein, Department of Police motion picture cameras while testing coordination Administration, Indiana University, Bloomington, of suspected drunken drivers by the Essex County, Indiana. (OH) New Jersey, Police. (OH) The Fourth International Meeting on Forensic Data Processing in the Italian Police-Dr. Ilio Immunology, Medicine, Pathology, and Toxi- Corti, International Criminal Police Review, No. cology-The meeting is scheduled for Copenhagen 179: 158-167 (June-July, 1964) and No. 180: August 15-18, 1966. Information concerning the 190-197 (August-September, 1964). The paper meeting may be obtained from Professor Dr. presents an extensive discussion on data processing Harald Gormsen, Director, University Institute of techniques. Basic principles, the use of computers Legal Medicine, Frederik D. Femtes 9 A, Copen- in police work, and record consultation in crime hagen, Denmark. Dr. Milton Helpern, Office of prevention and law enforcement are discussed in the Chief Medical Examiner, 520 First Avenue, the first section. Organization of the computer New York, New York 10016 has information on system in police investigation which includes a charter flights which will leave New York for survey of the conventional system, choosing Stockholm August 6, 1966 and return from London methods and spheres of application and equip- September 5, 1966. The Stockholm arrival will * Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Identification provide for attendance at the Second Congress of and Investigation, Springfield, Illinois. t Arlington, Virginia. the International Association of Traffic Accident § Laboratory Manager, Texas Department of Public Medicine to be held in that city August 9-12, Safety, Austin. Examiner of Questioned Documents, New York, 1966. Interested individuals in the charter flights N.Y. are advised to write early for information and 1IFirst Deputy Superintendent, New York State Police, Albany. reservations. (OH) 19651 . TECHNICAL ABSTRACTS AND NOTES Second International Meeting in Questioned wife and instead killed his sister-in-law and Documents-The meeting is planned to be held in wounded three other people. The author reflects Copenhagen at the same time as the Fourth on the wisdom of a court that could endanger International Meeting in Forensic Medicine. Docu- innocent people by leaving a man with such a ment examiners interested in participation or record, on the street. (JDN) further information should write Ordway Hilton, 15 Park Row, New York, New York 10038. (OH) In the Shadows-A. R. B., Journal, Forensic Science Society, 4 (3): 110 (March, 1964). A dis- Methods and Findings of Fatal Highway Col- cussion of the "dark figure" of hidden or un- lisions-A. L. Moseley, Royal CanadianMounted reported crime. The apparent growth of crime of Police Gazette, 26 (12): 12-4 (December, 1964). the hidden kind may be greater than suspected. Recommends that an automobile fatality should be Criminals may simply be practicing their craft given the same attention as a homicide, bringing with greater skill than police are practicing de- to bear experts in fields that might contribute to tection. Those in the forefront of the crime war the solution of the total accident dilema. (JDN) can certainly attest to this. (JDN) The Diagnosis of Alcoholic Intoxication-M. J. The Re-adoption of Previous Habits to Disguise Ree, Medicine, Science and the Law, 3 (4): 299-312 Handwriting-D. G. Stuckey, The Australian (July, 1963). The relation between urine and blood Police Journal, 18 (2): 93-108 (April, 1964). alcohol concentrations is discussed. If a single Forgeries or attempt fraud were identified by urine specimen, collected over four hours, is comparing the questioned signature with writing examined, the over estimate of alcohol in blood executed several years before. The same pe- may be as great as 40%. The rate of metabolism culiarities appeared in the contemporary disguised of alcohol is proportional to the concentration. writing as were writing habits forty years before. Immediately after the ingestion of alcohol on a Author suggests that handwriting laboratories fasting stomach, the blood alcohol concentration retain old disguised writing in order to detect will be high until the alcohol has time to diffuse these same disguises in present forgeries. (JDN) into body tissue. 'When properly conducted, chemical tests give a reliable index of blood Automatic Single Fingerprint Identification-J. alcohol levels. Multiple urine samples, at thirty A. Fitzmaurice, Identification News, 13 (11): 4-7 minute intervals, are necessary for accurate (November, 1963). Describes a machine scahning results. (JDN) of fingerprints for ridge-endings and bifurcations. These are located in a grid system, stored on A Gas Chromatographic Technique for the magnetic tape. Scanning can be done at a rate of Analysis of Anesthetic Gases in Tissue-E. N. 3,000 per week. Author estimated that as many as Cohen and H. W. Brewer, Journal of Gas Chroina- 50% of latents can be scanned. (JDN) tograph, 2 (8): 261-262 (August, 1964). A biopsy needle by which tissue can be introduced into the Can Eight Corresponding Ridge Details in column port, is described. By using a fore-column Fingerprints Justify Positive Identity-Pardaman of Drierite and Carbowax, tissue can be elimi- Singh, Identification News, 14 (4): 11 (April, 1964). nated. (JDN) Using hypothetical values, the author "justifies" an eight point identification. (JDN) Effective Lecture Slides-Anonymous, Photo Methods for Industry, 7 (6): 32-34 (January, 1964). Airline Ticket Frauds-Anonymous, Royal Ca- Tips for presentation of information through nadian Mounted Police Gazette, 26 (12): 5-7 slides. (JDN) (December, 1964). Although the suppression of airline ticket frauds is largely a problem for airline Sentenced to Death: The Simcox Case-T. security, police agencies operating on a national Lockley, The Police Journal, 37 (7): 314-20 (July, basis, as well as Interpol, are concerned. Wherever 1964). A man, murdered his second wife, was airline travel agency offices are burglarized, at- sentenced to death, reprieved and released. A tention should be directed to possible loss of short time later he attempted to murder his third tickets and validating stamps. (JDN) TECHNICAL ABSTRACTS AND NOTES (Vol. 56 Recent Developments in the Application of Restoration of Serial Numbers-Anonymous, Neutron Activation Analysis Techniques to Fo- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Gazette, 26 (12): rensic Problems-V. P. Guinn, Journal, The 15-6 (December, 1964). Various methods for Forensic Science Society, 4 (4): 184-91 (October, removal of serial numbers are discussed. These 1964). A review of progress in 1964, in the appli- include, reworking, altering, removal, and removal cation of N A A to the study of evidence in the followed by substitution of new metal and re- areas of hair, gunshot residue, and paint. (JDN) stamping. (JDN) Color Photography and its Limitations in Fo- Powder Actuated Tools-B. D. Munhall, Identi- rensic Work-M. Neilson, The Australian Police fication News, 13 (8): 10-3 (August, 1963). The Journal, 18 (2): 131-4 (April, 1964). Discusses the operation