INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF FINGERPRINTS.

The article discusses international exchange of fingerprints. The Division of Investigation, which in March, 1932, announced the initiation of a program designed to effect a more Liberal international exchange of fingerprints, points out that the developments attending this exchange of identifying data have been so satisfactory that it has enlarged this activity to include all foreign countries desiring to cooperate therein, as well as all law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada which contribute fingerprints regularly to the Division. The Division is of the opinion that to provide for a more comprehensive identification service further efforts must be made to ascertain whether the persons whose fingerprint cards are referred to the Division have criminal records in foreign countries, It is felt that the development of this international exchange of fingerprints should prove to be a further step in the cause of effective law enforcement, insure the regular receipt of criminal records of Americans arrested in foreign countries, and also provide for the completion of the records of citizens or natives of other countries, who may be taken into custody in the United States.