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During the same fiscal year 1,255 Federal furitives from . justice were lccated - an average of betveen 3 ard 4 Federel fugitives located per day. In addition, the Identification Division of the Bureau assisted various law erforcement: officials throughout the United States _ ok in identifying 2,435 fugitives during the same year. Stolen motor vehicles §- ce numbering 3,322, and valued at over $1,416,000 were recovered in cases in. : which the Bureau performed investigative work for the fiscal year 1932. Since the enactment of the Nationul Motor Vehicle Theft Act, or to give its commonly accepted name, the Dyer Act, in October 1919, until June 30, 1952, 31,343 stoler motor vehicles valued at over $21,716,COO heve been recovered in cases in which *he Bureeu performed investigative works. * -1P IDENTIFICATION DIVISION The Identification Division of the United States Bureau of Investigation is maintained at Washington, D. C., and was established on July 1, 1924, to operete as a national clearing house of idertifice tion data. At the date of its inception, it began vith approximately 800,000 fingerprint records which hai comprised the collections of the bureau maintaired at the United States Peni tentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and a of the Nationel Bureau of Criminal Identifi cation, Yashington, D. C., OF which had been operated by the Internatioral Association of Chiefs of Police, Since its establishment in 1924, the Identification Division of the United States Bureau of Investigation has had a phenomenal growth. During the fiscel year of 1932 alone, it received over 573,000 finge -cards. int we en Tad 199%, ere URE 7 | X. Ab sad trecant thle 44 heemore than 3,300,000 fingerprint oe ae records on file, representing the largest and most complete collection of os Kae criminal fingerprin*® records of current velue existing anywhere in the eG world. This division now receives criminal identification data fran — vw... = over contributors the Urited States and foreign countries, and ene f receives more th 2,000-tingerprint curds each day, replying to each of Os Tthin 36 hours, eM. a The subjects of over bb a the prints received are _ a) identified as having prior criminal records. By means of posting notices {oe of wanted persons in this division, the Bureau at present identifies more an fugitives each month, immediately notifving the proper officials s0 that these fugitives may be taken into custody. This entire service is io furnished free of cost end is maintained solely for the convenience and use”. Os of regularly constituted law enforcement officials and agencies, This data i w vrs 8 not made availeble for private purposes. At the present tine, the S ——_Ident it eat ton Division of the Bureau exchanges fingerprint records with . over (<5 foreign countries to help cope with the operations of international confiderice men, swindlers and gangsters, > | | oe