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Show Work for stronger laws, know where child is, advises chief Before an audience of over 60 representatives of PTA, women's wo-men's clubs, church and civic leaders, Police Chief Dewey Fillis of Salt Lake City, advised ad-vised all to get behind law enforcement en-forcement and see that strong laws are on state books to aid police in controlling crime, at a breakfast meeting here Thursday morning. His talk was most interesting and informative, in-formative, in the opinion of those attending. The meeting was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, many members bringing their wives and other special guests. Chief Fillis traced the alarming alarm-ing rise in major crimes throughout the country and warned "You cannot put the responsibility for fighting crime entirely on the police." He asked the group: "Are you willing to sit back and let the police do it? Are you reluctant to report crime or to sign complaints? com-plaints? Are you reluctant to appear as a witness or to sit in the jury box?" "We are living in a permis- sive society which is in a state : of moral decay and immorality," immoral-ity," he said, citing the flood of pornographic material including in-cluding motion pictures which is available to our young people. peo-ple. "Don't expect the police to decide what is objectionable," he warned, declaring, "We will have to go back to the jury system to determine this, and let the community decide what the standards of the comunity are." He urged the community to get back of law enforcement and use their influence with the legislators to see that good strong laws are placed on the 1 state books which will aid police pol-ice in the control of crime and : narcotics. Advised parents Concerning narcotics, Chief i Fillis urged parents to watch ; their children and make sure they know where they are, with , whom they are associating, and . what they are doing. He declared de-clared that one of the most horrible things in his law enforcement en-forcement experience is the realization that young people are becoming addicted to dependency de-pendency drugs and dangerous narcotics. He illustrated his talk on narcotics nar-cotics with a display of dangerous dan-gerous drugs prepared by his department and told of the various problems, encountered in recent months by the Salt Lake City Police Department. Sources told In response to questions, Chief Fillis said the narcotics arriving in Utah are coming from the Kansas City area (where marijuana is prevalent), from Las Vegas, Nev., and Tijuana, Ti-juana, Mexico. The LSD is being be-ing manufactured in Salt Lake City, he said. |