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SBIGets MoneyFor ExpansionRALEIGH (AP)i)ff.General Assembly voted money the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to increase its force of investigators by one-third and to add to its laboratory staff.The 1969 growth of crime in our state”“All our lawtrand observed,enforcement agencies must continually be upgraded so that we can apprehend and bring to jus-. tiee those who violate laws and endanger the life and propertyBut, SBI Director Charlesof others.”Dunn has written Gov. Bob j-)unn toJ(j tbe g0vcrnor theScott, the SBI is still under- number of new investigations, staffed and unable to provide|started by the SR, was m ,Jassistance needed by local law the first four months of 1969 and? ?SPCi?en!- m 4mfny areas to 1,558 in the same period ofk North Carolina today. lh|g year ArKj the nuKmber of“In addition, while we are!examinations by the SBI crime taking the initiative against the j tab increased from 31,604 to 39,-{ professional criminal, our re- 074.sources are still too limited to! „ ,__. . „ . ..allow us to do the job we fad I.* “2? fl?'wc should be doing, Dunn satdl,. result of the work byin a renort to the Governor1 agenta and laboratory Pomade nuhl e Tuesday 8 :™ne! In this period. For ex-mad, pur,lie luesday. |amp|e OTnvjctions for (he flr|tHe said while he is pleased four months of 1969 totaled 137. with progress made, “I am Convictions for the same period alarmed over the amount of this year totaled 359. The value crime in our state and the pro- of property recovered duringi»i-edhI-ehdnfessionalism exhibited by criminals in our midst.”Scott replied to Dunn that he shared the concern ‘‘over thethis year totaled 359. The value valued at $198,198 76. The property recovered for the same period of 1970 totaled $332,397.”
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High Point Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina, US
Wed, Jun 03, 1970
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