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    THE POLICE GAZETTE

    Sep 22, 2020 3 minutes

    For decades, one scene has been obligatory in crime dramas on TV and in the cinema: the moment when the detectives crowd round a computer monitor as a member of the team calls up a criminal’s record.

    ‘The Police Gazette featured detailed physical descriptions of offenders’

    But how did the police track wrongdoers before computers? The answer is that there was an increasingly sophisticated array of filing systems and record cards maintained by the Criminal Record Office in London. This included the  , which published weekly lists ofwould be circulated through local forces to share information about criminals.

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