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LOCAL POLICE SCHOOL TO OPENINFEBRUAflYEvery Officer Will Attend Course of Talks—20 Sessions Planned.Every police officer In Lowell will bo compelled to attend the local police school, accrodlng to an announcement made yesterday by Hugh Downey, superintendent of police. The police training school will follow the one being conducted by District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell in Enst Cambridge, and will open the middle of February.The Lowell police achool will consist of about 20 sessions. The sessions will be on certain dates to be named later, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It will he compulsory that all officers attend. Arrangements will bo made In the assigning of the routes so that every officer may attend.Talks will be given at the school by various Justices, attorneys, court officials and physicians. Following the lectures there will be a period for discussion in which officers may ask questions and secure information on matters pertaining to their work.Superintendent Downey will direct the achool. Tim school is the result of careful study of similar sessions being conducted in New York state. Among the instructions to be given will be evidence in court, preparation of cases, various crimes, traffic, parking and the use of firearms.It is posslblo that there will be talks by U. S. Commissioner Richard Brabrook Walsh, Judges connected with the local court, Clerk of Court Edward W. Trull and by Assistant Clerk of the District Court Raymond P. Bourgeois.Among the various subjects to be presented for the first 14 sessions will be: 1—Preparation and trial ofcriminal cases prosecuted in District court: 2—Crime and crime classification and arrests: 3—Magistrates and courts and rules of criminal evidence, statements and confessions; 4—Types of crime, namely, assault and battery, larceny, burglary, burglarious tool3 and unlawful entering; 5—Homicide, felonies and misdemeanors; 6—Search warrants: 7— Traffic and parking; S—Psychology and leadership; 9—Use of firearms; 10—First aid; 11—Finger-printing; 12—Complaints and reports; 13— Probation in relation to police departments; 14—A police officer as a witness.The sessions will be held In the guard room at police headquarters.
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Lowell Courier-Citizen
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Sat, Jan 25, 1930
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