Canacott - Australian Police Journal

October 1959

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Child Delinquency
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
The Kansas Highway Air Patrol
LEADERSHIP
Leadership in the Police Service
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Police and Public Relations
GAMBLING
The Dice were Loaded and the Cards were Marked
WOMEN POLICE
Women Police – ICPO Notes
TECHNICAL NOTES
Skilful Police Tactics Pay Off
Juvenile Crime not Worse than Usual
When was a Smoke-Damaged Document Typewritten
FIREARMS
Injury Caused by a Single Shotgun Pellet

LAW
The Criminal Degrees of Knowledge
HOMICIDE
The Parker-Hulme Murder
EVIDENCE
Bankers’ Books
POLICE PRACTICES
Some Weak Links in Police Communications
TECHNICAL NOTES
Psychology of the Search
The Importance of Impressions Left by Teeth and Lips in Crime Detection
Identification of Handwriting
BOOK REVIEW
Outline of Law in Australia

FORENSICS
Critical Times in Murder Investigation (Time of Assault, Incapacitation and Death)
POLICE PROCEDURES
Report Writing – Some ‘Do’s’ and ‘Don’ts’
POLICE PROCEDURES
Uniformity in Police RT/WT Message Procedure
FORENSICS
The Government Analyst’s Laboratories and the Police
FORGERY
Mr ‘One by One’ – Forger
HOMICIDE
Murder by Thallium Poisoning – Regina v Caroline Grills
TECHNICAL NOTES
Identification of Instrument Marks
Identification of Tip of Putty Knife
Homemade Pistol
INTERNATIONAL POLICING
Law Enforcement in the United States
FIREFIGHTING
Bush Fire Fighting

PROFESSIONALISM
Marks of a Good Policeman
EQUIPMENT
Use of Gas and Allied Equipment in Preservation of Law and Order
LEADERSHIP
Command and Leadership
COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Lessons of the Berala Train Disaster
EQUIPMENT
The Lie Detector – Part I
ROAD SAFETY
Going to Crash?
HOMICIDE
The Murder of Mika Marie Minnitt
TECHNICAL NOTES
Sequence of Writings
Hit-Run Traffic Investigations
Broken Headlamp Glass Identification
LEGAL
Witnesses at Coronial Inquiries

EQUIPMENT
Making Your Own Equipment – Part II
BOOK REVIEW
The Colonial Police
LEGAL
Traffic Offences – Criminal Responsibility, Civil and Criminal Negligence, Contributory Negligence and Manslaughter
EQUIPMENT
The Telephone in Police Communications
MENTAL DYSFUNCTION
The Straffen Case
FORENSICS
The Functions of the Forensic Science Laboratory in Criminal Investigations
LEGAL
Wilful and Obscene Exposure
TECHNICAL NOTES
A Homemade Pistol
Death from Lightning
Identification of Textile Pattern in Hit-run Investigation
HISTORY
Police Establishment in New South Wales – Part I

PUBLIC RELATIONS
More About Public Relations
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Advice to Young Detectives
LEGAL
Admissibility of ‘Complaints’
COMMUNICATIONS
Instruction of Probationary Constables in Police Force Communications
STOLEN MOTOR VEHICLES
Investigation Tips in Auto Thefts
ARSON
The West Wyalong Fires
LEGAL
Opinions of Experts
BOOK REVIEW
Crime Investigation – Physical Evidence and the Police Laboratory
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
The Double Circle Roadblock System
TECHNICAL NOTES
Some Suicide Statistics
Traces of Gloves
Watermarks and the Investigator in Document Cases
LECTURE
Habitual Criminals – Licence Holders – First Offenders etc – Part II

EXPLOSION
A Petrol Vapour Explosion – HMAS Tarakan
HOMICIDE
The Murder of Annie Kathleen Sturrock
FRAUD
Metallurgy in a Coining Offence
TRAINING
Training of Instructors for the Victoria Police Force
COMMUNICATIONS
Police Communications and the Jet Age
TECHNICAL NOTES
A Corpse Torn into Pieces by Elephants
Identification of a Watch-Winder Stem
Obtaining a Print from a Mummified Finger
Identification of Pieces of Headlamp Glass
PROFESSIONALISM
Morale
BOOK REVIEW
Self-Incrimination: What can an Accused Person be Compelled to do?
PROSTITUTION
Prostitution; Procuring; Living on Earnings. A Lecture