| Show 1 FBI and police work out training plans P for meeting needs of civilian defense washington following conferences feren ces between fiorello laguardia director of civilian defense and john edgar hoover director of the federal bureau of investigation plans are now being completed for conducting courses of training for the police of the nation in order to assist them in knowing and performing their duties in the civilian defense program these FBI civilian defense courses for police conducted with the official approval of the director of civilian defense are being held in various parts of the united states by instructors of the FBI who have been selected by hoover for this purpose in preparation for this type of instruction st director hoover sent representatives of the FBI to england last year for several months in 1940 and 1941 these representatives studied and observed the methods being employed in england during actual wartime conditions and the benefits of these observations will be made available to the police of the nation through the FBI national police academy and through the FBI civilian defense courses for police the program of training which has been prepared by the federal bureau of investigation and approved by mayor laguardia as d director of civilian defense will in include various law enforcement duties in emergencies among such duties are the following convoying troops convoying military mechanized units guard and patrol work protecting restricted and vulnerable points and places air raid precaution functions of police enforcing blackout requirements and laws controlling noise evacuation problems |
