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Show IRISH DETECTIVES ROUND UP CROOKS j DUBLIN. Dec. 1 The. criminal! 'investigation department, established j by the Irish government, has largely replaced the old detective department Ot the Dublin me-tropolltan poller-. it has Its headquarters in Oriel houso, and tt task is the rounding up of the ordinary criminals, bank rob- bcrs and burglars who have taken1 advantage of the prevailing troubled times to prey on tho citizens Tho new force has the advantage, over j the old, that its members have none of the traditional and easily recognizable recog-nizable appearance of the ordinary-police ordinary-police detective in Dublin. They are mostly young men, very like the aver-ago aver-ago young man In dress and build, and their operations aro Increasingly effective. They recently made 56 arrests ar-rests in one week, have recovered much property, and have been congratulated con-gratulated on tholr efficiency by the recorder of Dublin. |