Scotland Yard Faces New Wave of Crime Latest Pictures of the Yard at work: A new wave of crime is sweeping over the country, drinking with it some of the most sensational and unprecedented cases in the annuals of criminal History. Fantastic bank and jewel raids, fraudulent business deals involving millions of pounds, controversial cased like Marwood and Podola -and - and of course, Alfred Hinds still at large. New Scotland yard, headquarters of the metropolitan Police since 1891 and monument of criminal detection, has never been so busy. On its shoulders rest the investigation of crimes not only in Great Britain but the world as well. Through Interpol which deals with the Major international rackets. These are the latest photographs of the yard at work, and show aspects of the information rooms opened at the beginning of 1957. Here incidents within an area of 742 square miles - the metropolitan and city district of London - are reported through the million calls received each tear. a two-way radio-telephone system sees to the need of a population of nearly 9 million. in the Fingerprint files 1,350,000sets of fingerprints are catalogued for ready reference. Photo shows broadcasting to all cars from the information room.
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