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January 1956

  • SCIENTIFIC
    The Missing Link – Scientific Aids in a Case of Stealing
  • LEGAL
    1955 Amendments to the NSW Crimes Act
  • RECRUITMENT
    Selection Methods for Police Recruits
  • ROAD SAFETY
    The Police and the Road Traffic Accident
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Identification of Pieces of Broken Woodscrew and Fragment of Timber
    Photography of Burnt Treasury Notes
  • VAGRANCY
    The Law of Vagrancy in Western Australia

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October 1955

  • POLICE POWERS
    Search and Seizure
  • THEFT
    Embezzlement – Larceny as Clerk or Servant – Misappropriation – Fraudulent Appropriation
  • EVIDENCE
    Similar but Unconnected Facts and Facts Showing System
  • MARITIME OFFENCES
    Right of Courts to Deal with Offences Committed on the High Seas on British Ships
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Use of Radar in Estimating the Speed of Moving Vehicles
    Handwriting Identifies Offender
    Speedometer ‘King Size’

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July 1955

  • 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

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April 1955

  • FINGERPRINTS
    The Viscid Period
  • HISTORICAL
    The Dick Turpin Myth
  • HISTORICAL
    The Early History of Trial in English Law, Including Ordeals and Juries
  • HOMICIDE
    The French Case
  • EVIDENCE
    Documentary Evidence
  • SEARCH AND RESCUE
    The Behaviour of Human Bodies in Water
  • HISTORICAL
    Victoria Police, A Historical Review
  • ALCOHOL
    Alcohol and Crime
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Determination of Amount of Alcoholic Liquor Consumed
    Identification of Wood Bit
  • LEGAL
    Inquiry Desk

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January 1955

  • LEGAL
    Police Problems in Drunken Driving Cases
  • SUICIDE
    Attempted Suicide is an Offence
  • COURT PROCEDURES
    Hostile Witnesses
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Compulsory Chemical Tests for Intoxication
    Television in Police Work
    ‘Photo Traffic’ Camera
    Radar as Evidence of Vehicle’s Speed
  • ADMINISTRATION
    Police Administration in Queensland

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October 1954

  • 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

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July 1954

  • POLICE PROCEDURES
    Police Notebooks in Evidence
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    American Law Enforcement
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction
    Gambling, Should it be Legalised
  • LARCENY
    Larcenies
  • FORENSICS
    Document Photography
  • POLICE PROCEDURES
    Examination and Cross Examination of Witnesses
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Eyestrain and the Fingerprint Classifier
    Alcohol Tests – Relationship between Blood and Breath Percentages
    Forged Totalizator Tickets
  • HISTORICAL
    The Western Australia Police

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April 1954

  • LEGAL
    Restitution of Property in Criminal Cases
  • EQUIPMENT
    The Lie Detector Part II
  • HOMICIDE
    Murder on a Central Pacific Island
  • LEGAL
    Competency of Witnesses
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Blood and Urine Alcohol Tests in ‘Driving Under the Influence’ Charges
    How Accurate is Pacing?
    Cutting Ring
    The Effect of Alcohol
  • HISTORICAL
    Police Establishment in New South Wales – Part 2

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January 1954

  • 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

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October 1953

  • 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

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July 1953

  • HOMICIDE
    The Mary Eileen Turner Murder Case
  • POLICE TACTICS
    The Agent Provocateur or Policy Spy
  • EQUIPMENT
    Making Your Own Equipment – Part I
  • LEGAL
    Spring Guns and Manslaughter
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Proof of Identity of Carbon Copies with Original Signature
    Fluorescent Examination of Contents of Sealed Envelope
    Memory Development Test
  • POLICE TRAINING
    Taking Statements from Witnesses
  • LEGAL
    Evidence of Similar Facts, the Case of Mrs Fletcher

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April 1953

  • 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

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January 1953

  • HISTORY
    A ‘Border Law’ that no longer exists within the Commonwealth of Australia
  • INTERNATIONAL POLICING
    American Police Administration at Mid-Century
  • HOMICIDE
    The Murder of Joseph Edward Fisher
  • FORENSICS
    The Adaption of X-ray Technique to Crime Detection
  • LEGAL
    Stealing by Finding
  • LEGAL
    An Unusual ‘Joyrider’
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Fingerprint Identification of Body Five to Six Months Dead
  • PRESENTATION
    Habitual Criminals – Licence Holders – First Offenders etc – Part I

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October 1951

  • LEGAL
    Assaults on Police by Trespassers in Private Premises
  • PROFESSIONALISM
    The Professional Status of the Police
  • HOMICIDE
    Ronald Newman Cribben
  • LEGAL
    Issue Estoppel
  • TRAINING
    Studying for that Exam
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Radio and Telephone Transmission of Photographs
    Tool-mark Identification – Stapling Machine
    Ballistics – Identification of Shotgun Wad
    Determining the Calibre of a Bullet Embedded in a Human Body
    Identification of Tool Marks with Profilograph
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    Mental Abornomality in Relation to Major Crime
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Bignold’s Police Offences and Vagrancy Acts

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July 1951

  • LEGAL
    Statutory Privileges in Criminal Cases
  • SKILLS
    The Art of Report Writing
  • PROCEDURES
    Some Observations on Drunken Driving
  • HOMICIDE
    She Made Soap with the Bodies of Her Victims
  • DRUGS
    Driving Under the Influence of a Drug
  • HEALTH AND SAFETY
    Investigation into the Mercurial Hazard in the use of Mercury Powder in Fingerprinting in NSW
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Identification of a Typewriter
    Fires without Inflammables
    Fires with Inflammables
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Gambling – Should it be Legalised

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April 1951

  • 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

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January 1951

  • TRAINING
    The Police College
  • HOMICIDE
    A Murder Investigation by the CID of New Scotland Yard
  • LEGAL
    The Law of Consorting
  • LEGAL
    ‘Peeping Toms’
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS
    Publice Relations
  • HEALTH
    Arteriosclerosis and Police Duty
  • HISTORY
    A Short History of Criminal Punishment
  • FIREARMS
    A Few Hints on Good Shooting
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    An Unusual Suicide
    Identification of Electric Wire
    Bullet Identification
    Identification of a Cartridge Case
    Bicycle Number Plates
  • BOOK REVIEW
    Gross’ Criminal Investigation
  • LEGAL
    Appeals and Prohibitions: Stated Cases, Law, Procedure, Reports Required – A Lecture

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October 1950

  • SUICIDE
    The Bungendore Bones
  • HOMICIDE
    The Devaney Murder
  • ROBBERY
    A Novel Disguise
  • FIREARMS
    Look to your Pistol
  • LANGUAGE
    ‘Barnacles’
  • FORENSICS
    Blood Tests and Grouping in Police Work
  • ROAD SAFETY
    Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor – Some Practical Points
  • CRIME
    ‘Peeping Tom’ – Habitual Offenders. Magistrates’ Powers
  • INCEST
    The Effect of Russell v Russell in cases of Incest
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Plan-Drawing Stencil
    Oblique Light in Document Examination
    Proposed use of Radio-Activity to Catch Thieves
    Comparison and Identification of Tool Markings on Wood

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July 1950

  • ARSON
    The Oleinikoffs
  • LEGAL
    Intent to Defraud
  • HOMICIDE
    The Barton Murders
  • LEGAL
    The Coroner and the Police
  • FORENSICS
    Blood Stains
  • TECHNICAL NOTES
    Identification of an Axe
    Mercury Poisoning from Fingerprint Powder
    Improvised Gaol-Breaking Device
    Identification of a Piece of Skin
    Fingerprints on Bottles and Jars
    Absence of Friction Ridges on Hands and Feet
  • LEGAL
    Extradition Procedure – A Lecture

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April 1950

  • LEGAL
    Evidence of Similar Facts
  • LANGUAGES
    ‘It’s Not What They Say’
  • FORENSICS
    Palm Prints
  • HISTORY
    Treasure Trove
  • TECHNICAL
    Tool Mark Comparisons in Criminal Investigations
  • SKILLS
    The Policeman and his Shorthand
  • LEGAL
    Riots; Routs; Unlawful Assemblies; Public Meetings
  • TRAINING
    Lancashire’s Crime School

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October 1949

  • LEGAL
    The Right to Enter Private Premises
  • LEGAL
    Goods in Custody (Part III)
  • YOUTH
    Juvenile Crime
  • POLICE PROCEDURES
    Aids to Criminal Investigation
  • HOMICIDE
    A Case of Murder (No. 2)
  • THEFT
    Aladdin’s Cave
  • COMMENTARY
    ‘What do You Want us to Do?’
  • FORENSICS
    Grass and Weed Seeds in Criminal Investigation
  • PROFESSIONALISM
    The Police Officer as a Witness
  • ROAD POLICING
    Accident Investigation
  • MANSLAUGHTER
    Self-Made Widows are Hard to Convict
  • LEGAL
    Rules of Evidence – A Lecture

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July 1949

  • CRIME DETECTION
    New Scotland Yard
  • HOMICIDE
    The Inevitability of Homicide
  • HISTORICAL
    Wartime Crime in South Australia
  • LEGAL
    Goods in Custody (Part II)
  • HOMICIDE
    The Hofmann Murder Case
  • FORENSICS
    Soil Analysis Aids Larceny Investigation
  • TRAINING
    The Application of Audio-Visual Aids to Police Training
  • PROCEDURES
    Preparing Criminal Cases – A Lecture
  • TIP
    Weighing Live Cattle by Tape Measure

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April 1949

  • ADMINISTRATION
    The New Editor
  • EXECUTIVE
    Commissioners’ Conference 1948
  • INTERNATIONAL
    Police and Crime in London since the War
  • FRAUD
    Han Van Meegeren – The Painter who Confounded Critics
  • LEGAL
    Goods in Custody – Part I
  • HOMICIDE
    The ‘Charred Tooth’ Murder
  • CRIME
    Criminals Committing Offences Whilst on Bail
  • FORENSICS
    The Working Tools of Firearms Identification
  • FIREARMS
    Pistols and the Public
  • JUVENILE CRIME
    Progress in the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency
  • HOMICIDE
    A Murder Investigation Timetable
  • LEGAL
    Failure to Report (or Stop After) an Accident
  • OPINION
    Thoughts of a Policeman-Interviewer
  • LEGAL 
    Admissibility of Evidence

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