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Lt. Joseph L. Bray Succeeds Spence As Head of GBI SleuthsJoseph L. Bray, member of the State Highway Patrol and GBI for many years, has been sworn in as new head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation by Major W. E. Spence, director of the State Depart ment of Public Safety. With approval of Governor Amall, Spence, recently elevated from head of the GBI to the Public Safety Post, made the appointment of the 43-year-old lieutenant, oldest member of the GBI in point of service.In his new position, Bray will be in charge of the GBI, the State Patrol’s plainclothes division, which consists of 15 plainclothesmen and seven identification men. Operating usually at the request of local authorities, this group last year hand led 921 criminal investigations on chargesc of robberies, assaults, kid nappings, escaped convicts, and case of arson, narcotics, livestock thefts and burglaries.After serving with the Atlanta Police Department three and a half years, Lieutenant Bray joined the State Patrol in 1939. He has established a noteworthy record in his supervision of the Dexi graph system of issuing driver’s licenses, identification and finger printing bureau, the Henry system of finger printing, and the fingerprinting and photographing of workers in the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation at Savannah.In 1944, Bray organized the missing persons bureau, which aided in locating 475 of 575 missing persons in the State. Also, he established the modus operandi file for classifying criminals in Georgia.
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Cumming Forsyth County News
Cumming, Georgia, US
Thu, Apr 04, 1946
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