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ee STATEMENT OF J. EDGAR NOOVER, DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF IKVESTIGATION, UNITED ee - STATES DEPARTMEKT OF JUSTICE, DELIVERED - os BY SPECIAL AGENT HORTOK RB. TELFORD aT THE ANWUAL GEWERAL MEETING OF THE INTER - WATIOWAL CKIVINAL POLICE CQMSSIOK, PARIS, FRANCE, JUNE 1947. I want to preface my remarka by extending to each delegate to the annual @eneral Meeting of the International Crimtnal Police Comutsston my sincere personal regards. I regret that circumstances preclude my detng with you but trust that your efferte on behalf ef international pelice eceperation meet with every success. fhe Federal Bureau ef Investigation, United States Departnent of Justice, has leng recognized the need fer ceopera- tien and untty of action among law enforcenent groups, and has ezerted every effort to moke this a reality. In the Dntted States ef kuertoa there is no ecentraltza- tton of peltce authority. Inaetead, there ore Federal, state, county and munictpal egenctes, euch operating within a linited aphere. Frequently their respective jurisdictions are concurrent, 4 State, county and municipal agenctes have Jurisdiction ever common-law crimes such ae murder, rebbery, burglary and stutlor effenses. They derive thetr authority from the several The Federal Bureau of Investigation, on the contrary, . —4z an agency ef the United States ny It ta charged with ‘ is 7 rey toe Berar h FICLOSURE prt | i i I I I i j