Eagle Book of Police and Detection claimed to be the most complete work of its
kind that had ever been published. Written from first-hand experience by an acknowledged
authority on the Police and their methods throughout the world, it is packed with dramatic
true stories and photographs. (Aimed at the 11-16 age group.)
Original Price : 15s (75p)
Published by : Longacre Press Ltd, London in 1960
Edited by : Richard Harrison
Dimensions : 21.5cm x 26cm with 192 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Learn about the police in Mesopotamia hundreds of years before Abraham
- Find out how a Police Cadet spends his day
- See how a detective learns his job
- Detect and identify fingerprints
| Contents | |
|---|---|
| Page | |
| The Police and their story | 7 |
| The English Police - I | 11 |
| The English Police - II | 19 |
| The Work of the C.I.D. | 31 |
| How Science helps Detectives | 55 |
| Facts about Fingerprints | 76 |
| Arrest and After | 90 |
| The Police of Scotland | 94 |
| The Police of the Docks | 100 |
| The Police of America | 108 |
| The Story of the F.B.I. | 119 |
| Some Police of other Lands | 129 |
| Horses, Dogs and Others | 149 |
| Frauds and Forgeries | 160 |
| The Private Detective | 168 |
| The Police Cadets | 177 |
| The Police at School | 183 |
| Police, Press and Public | 189 |