Stock Photo - 1952 - Scotland Yard Faces New Wave Of Crime Latest Pictures Of The Yard At Work: A new wave of Crime s Sweeping over the country driniging with it some of the most sensational and unprecedented cases in the annals of Criminal History . fantastic sank and jewels raids, Frasulent business deals involving milloins of pounds, copntroversial cases like Marwoof and Padola and ofcourse, alfred hinds stil at Larges!.New Scovand Yars, Headquarters of the mstropolitam police since 1896. and monumery of criminal detection, has never seen so busy, on are shoulders rests the invrestgation of crimes not only in great britain out the would as well, thorugh interpol which deals with the major International rackets. These are the latest photographs of the Yaro at work, and snow aspects of the informatiion room opened at the degisnning of 1957. here incidents within an area of 742 square miles -the metropolitan and citydistricts of London - are reported through the Million calls received each year. A two way race telephone system sees to the needs of a poulation of nearly 9 millions.In the fingerprint files 1,35,l000 sets of fingerprints ane catalouged for ready reference. Deadof finger prints & photographic department Chief Superintendent J. Livings, M.B.E. confers with a senior staff member.(standing) (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)