Superintendent George Ross Pou of the State’s Prison addressed a letter to each sheriff in the State and to 150 chiefs of police throughout the State, calling their attention to an act of the recent General Assembly creating a State Bureau of Identification.
Superintendent Pou announced the appointment of Deputy Warden H.H. Honeycutt as director of the State Bureau of Identification. Deputy Warden Honeycutt has for the past three years been in charge of the identification department of the State’s Prison and is one of the leading fingerprint experts of the South, having been so declared by the chief of the Bureau of Identification of the city of Richmond. Deputy Warden Honeycutt will perform his additional duties without increase in his present compensation. The act creating the Bureau of Identification was sponsored by the Police Chief’s Association and by Superintendent Pou.
Mr. Pou stated that the taking of fingerprints was not alone for the purpose of detecting criminals but for the protection of the innocent as well.
Within a few years the bureau is expected to be of invaluable assistance to Solicitors in giving in detail the former prison record, if any, of the defendant. The information should also be of aid to the trial judge in determining the sentence of the prisoner.
The Identification Bureau of the State’s Prison was established by superintendent Pou during his first term of office. The Bureau has been high complimented by Wm. J. Burns, former Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice. It was established after Mr. Pou had conferred with Mr. Burns relative to the most modern methods in use.
From page 2 of The Norlina Headlight, August 7, 1925
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