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sme wo ema ee ee ee a ine, rn oe x me -6- 7 | 1924, to operate as a national clearing house of identification data. At the date of its inception, it began with approximately 800,000 fingerprint records which hed comprised the collections of the bureau maintained at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and of the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, Wash- ington, D. C., which had been operated by the Internetional Asscci- ation of Chiefs of Police. Since its establishment in 1924, the Identification Unit of the Division of Investigation has had a phenomenal growth. Dure ing the fiscal year of 1934 alone, it received 558,241 criminal fingerprint cards in addition to applicant and civil records. On July 1, 1934, there were 4,372,619 fingerprint records Reo on file, representing the largest and most complete collection of a ts 1 criminal fingerprint records of current value existing anywhere in ht the world. This Unit now receives crininal identification deta from 6,774 contributors in the United States and foreien countries, and < ‘a € Be. &. oz ga: receives more than 2,200 fingerprint cards each day, replying to PY each of these cards vithin 36 hours. The subjects of over 46% of all the prints received are identified as heving prior criminal records. By means of posting _. notices of wanted persons in this Unit, the Division at -prosent identifics an average of 563 fugitives each month, immediately