Caption
Street slaying is investigated by homicide squad in bright glare of searchlights supplied and powered by lab. Lab has two gasoline generators to power its battery of hand searchlights and underwater lamps.
Date
October 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63004
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175873
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Experts from Hold-up squad dust for fingerprints on broken factory window. Tucked away in lab's compartments are fingerprint kits, chemicals for analysing blood samples, vacuum cleaner for collecting dust particles in suspect's clothing.
Date
October 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63012
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175874
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Fingerprint negative developed at crime's scene is ready for classification immediately on arrival at headquarters.
Date
October 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63013
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175875
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Stolen safe is recovered from Montreal Harbour by police diver wearing apparatus carried in lab for such emergencies.
Date
October 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63014
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175876
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Phoning to lab, Det. Lieut. Bill Phillips, of Missing Persons Bureau, reports discovery of purse in woods during search for missing woman. Walkie-talkies are also used for large-scale raids to co-ordinate movements of police.
Date
October 1, 1952
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63017
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175877
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Array of equipment carried in lab totals over $15,000. Included: vacuum cleaner, chemicals, lie-detector, tape recorders, riot guns, searchlights and cables. Lab has three-way radio contact with police cruisers and headquarters at all times.
Accession Number
LAC-NFB63353
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011175888
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #2: Mobile Lab Speeds Science to Crime's Scene
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
March 31, 1955
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
With modern science playing an increasingly important role in the fight against crime, time has become a big factor in whether the result of intensive police lab work can figure in the capture of quick-getaway artists. To meet this challenge, Montreal has designed and built a lab on wheels that sheds time and distance in bringing science to the scene of the crime. The big two-tone green science wagon, operated by the Detective Department's Identification Bureau, serves the various squads within the force as needed. Some of the $15,000 worth of equipment tucked away in its compact van: Diving suits, ultra-violet lamps, a complete arsenal, and enough lighting equipment to flood a darkened city block with daylight. Since it first rolled into action the lab's effectiveness has been pointed out in thousands of cases, ranging from helping to recover stolen vehicles to investigating homicides. Notable among them: supplying bullet-proof vests, riot guns and searchlights when police flushed the cop-killing Steve Suchan gang from a Montreal flat.
