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Show jlRD PLEASED fflTHJESULTS Police Commissioner Hobnobs With Noted Criminal Officers Offi-cers at Detroit Much Information which will be of great value In the direction of a police department has been gained by J. Ray Ward, commissioner of public safety, while attending the international convention con-vention of police chiefs held in Detroit, De-troit, Mich., last week, according to a letter received from Mr. Ward this morning by Mayor Frank Francis. Mr. Ward stated he will probably arrive home next Saturday. The letter, let-ter, in full, follows: "I left the convention of the international inter-national chiefs of police at Detroit Inst evening, feeling that 1 had acquired ac-quired a world of knowledge along the lino of police work. The trip has Indeed In-deed been worth while and I feel that our police department will be benefited benefit-ed by my having had this experience. "I have had the oleasure of meeting and conferring with such men as Commissioner Com-missioner of Police Inches of Detroit, W. H. Plnkerton of the famous detective detec-tive agency, John Daly, who Is chief of the New York police department, and- August Vollmer, chief of police of Berkeley, Calif., and who also is a professor pro-fessor In criminology in the University of California. 1 ha"e had the pleasure of long talks along police lines with each of the above named men and have also inquired Into conditions and methods of police work in over twenty twen-ty cities about the size of our own city. "I am coming back, firmly converted convert-ed to the idea that the biggest police work Is not only to catch and prosecute prose-cute criminals but to prevent crime in j its inception. "I hope to arrive in Ogden about 'next Saturday. Am slopping with my mother In Kansas for a few days. "Yours sincerely. "J R. WARD." nn |