Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-21 | Page 12 | Police School May be Formed

POLICE SCHOOL I MAY MA Y BE FORMED s' s WASHINGTON Ma May y 21 P JP ev-At- At Attorney torne torney lorney General Cummings is said to tobe 1 be preparing to announce shortly the I first definite plans for lor setting up the I national crime Ins Institute tc termed a West Point for l law lw officers r. r Informed sources said for this now arc are on his desk from the advisory committee of the National Conf Conference rence n Crime Justin Justin Jus Jus- tin Miller special assistant nt to the attorney attorney at at- torney general is chairman of the con con- ference I Miller declined to talk but it is known that thal the general plan involves I training of selected representatives S from metropolitan and state police units Use of the scientific laboratories dealing with fingerprints guns poi pol sons rons handwriting and other ollier evidence and the classroom facilities in the t justice building here has been ad ad- by experts because of the I justice agents agents' r record cord In their drive against kidnapers and gangsters Miller liller in a recent speech said the theE country is awak awakening to the fact th that t E i selected personnel in criminal adi administration administration ad ad- i ministration is as impo important as 35 as engineers en in rs to 10 build bridges or airplanes or highly skilled surgeons and phI phy phy- I Miller said it was debated whether the institute here herc should actually undertake undertake un un- un instruction and research or merely provide standards for use at federal institutions throughout the country at state te universities police training schools or criminological inI inE institutes in in- I E that are arc privately financed Miller 1 also advocated additional training for judges and prosecutors i Even if all an police were carefully selected selected se se- se and trained he said law administration administration administration ad ad- ministration would rest upon the bench and ba bar