Abstract :
On the evening of Friday, May 23, the New York Section held its final meeting for the year 1929–30. The meeting, held in the Engineering Auditorium was devoted to the subject “Policing Our Great City.” Police Department officials described the training and coordinating of the work of the 19,000 men composing the force, including the detective squads, the marine and flying squads, the Statistical Department, the Bureau of Missing Persons, etc. Every talk proved intensely interesting to the 450 attending members. The speakers were, as follows: Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, on “The Police Department;” Inspector Joseph J. Donovan on “Some Unique Department Statistics;” Captain J. H. Ayres on “Missing Persons;” Lieutenant F. E. Zwirz on “Fingerprints and Their Use;” Sergeant H. F. Butts on “Ballistics.” Motion pictures of the police parade and review were shown as well as interesting slides illustrating points in some of the talks.
