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th the complaint made ae _ ¥ranciseoo Police Department, reg ng his n & photograph of *{ DEX, Mr. Toleon has requested / that you be advised regarding the practice in filing in the’Sin Fingerprint Section the records of well known gangsters, as well’as the | “efforts made to obtain photographs in each instance. eel oe at the time the single Fingerprint Section ‘was created it was - decided that only the recoris of kidnapers and extortionists should be. {neerted therein, Just recently, the practice was adopted of placing in this Section thefrecords ofttacketeers andigangaters which were ms brought to the attention of thie Unit fran time to timo. The Chicago = = ««< p Offices recently subuitted a list of 157 so-called public enemies, the P Detroit Office a list containing the names of different gangs including the Purple Gang” and the St. Louls Office furnished a list of the members ~ of the WilliantCobeck gang. In afdition, as information is received releq tive to other notorious criminals these names are added to the fille, No. A effort on the part of the Unit hag been made to obtain through the Field .. : Offices a list of gangsters, end the writer has been reluctant to make such” mt & Tequest, as up to the present the Equipment Section has not been able hal take care of the large number of requests for ‘positive photoatats of the .. records of kidnapers and extortionists which have been obtained through a check of the Technical files and fram current recorda received in the Unit. This w attention was called to the fact that we had jugt ° sent alii reocorga to be phot ted and that there were. xz ready, in the approxiaately 500 a hie our- ; xent work has deen unable to prepare more corés each”: Bae “week and arrangements were mnie to have one of the Unit's technical ‘sien work at night with the photostating machine, in omer to take cere of th . eecumulated work. Prior to the completion of the daily check of the ted i gal fhlew being conducted by the regular” employees,” ‘which will ‘be add * Shree months, there will be a steady flow of records of kidnapers and. nlete to be placed in the Single Fingerprint file.” However, if; form letter will be sent to eschtiField Office requesting the btained from the principal polic departments the names of: pinale whose records can be 5 searoentad Phenetoe single | Fing re