University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 17, 1963
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State Policemen to Play Detective At Burglary and Larceny Seminar
By Charles Corcoran
By Charles Corcoran Sixty Kansas policemen will sift through clues in simulated crime scenes today in the Kansas Union. The investigation will highlight the second day of the third annual Burglary and Larceny Seminar being conducted here.
Yesterday, policemen attending the seminar heard talks outlining investigative procedure and points of law governing search and seizure, and admissability of evidence in court.
William M. Ferguson, Kansas attorney general, presented the discussion on search and seizure of evidence and suspects. He outlined the legal barriers confronting law enforcement officer in his investigation of a crime.
THE SCHOOL is conducted annually by the KU Governmental Research Center, Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), KU School of Law, Kansas Peace Officers Association and the KU University Extension.
Today's crime scene investigation, created as a training aid by the KBI, will test the investigative skills of 12 teams of five police officers each.
The policemen will use the latest crime detection equipment—including photography, finger print analysis—to uncover the criminal who committed the simulated crime.
a school system superintendent which was actually burglarized. The investigating officers will note that the door has been forced open and that the floor and containers in the room will yield clues to the identity of the burglary.
Items in the room are a desk and chair, a wastebasket, a filing cabinet and a safe which has been "peeled." "Peeling" is a technique used by safe crackers to remove the metal layers of a safe door in order to reach the safe's contents.
IF THE POLICEMEN are successful in their investigation, they will know where to find the burglar who will be hiding somewhere in the Kansas Union.
Professor Paul Wilson of the School of Law will be judge for the
The scene simulates the office of
jury trial which is to begin at 8:30 am. Selby S. S. Woward, Sherman county attorney, Goodland, is prosecuting attorney and Richard Leibert, attorney and state representative from Coffeyville, is defense attorney. Officers of the KBI will pose as the criminal and his ali witness.
Members of a panel which will evaluate all phases of the seminar are James S. Kline, chairman and coordinator of peace officer training for the KU Governmental Research Center; Harold Nye, assistant director of the KBI; Ramon K. House, Dodge City chief of police; Logan Sanford, director of the KBI; Major J. R. Klepper of the Wichita police department detective division; and Professors Wilson, Leibert and Soward. (See Picture Page 12)
Women Elected To AWS Seats
Susan Langston, Springfield, Mo. freshman, and Kathryn Mize, Salina freshman, were elected yesterday to the Senate of the Associated Women Students (AWS).
Freshman officers for the House of Representatives are Kathleen Thompson, Iola, Grace Pearson hall; Carolyn Brewster, Prairie Village; Corbin hall; and Cecily Pitts, Shawnee Mission, Gertrude Sellards Pearson hall.
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