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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!remote!UUCP
- From: Joe.Nicholson@f123.n202.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Nicholson)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: short, personal, anno
- Message-ID: <722217061.AA21391@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:05:05 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- Blake Bowers was overheard stating:
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- BB> Here in Nashville, a move is about to take the Arson
- Investigation
- BB> responsibility away from the Fire Marshalls office. The Mayor, has
- BB> decided that it would be better served by being part of the Police
- dept.
- BB> No mention has been made as to whether or not the present
- investigative
- BB> staff would be transfered to the PD, but past behaviour has shown
- BB> that the staff would probably be reassigned within the fire
- department.
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- Several large cities now have a MAST - Metro Arson Strike Team -
- composed
- of both fire investigators and police officers. The advantage is that
- the
- fire personnel are trained and experienced in determining origin/cause
- of
- incidents, and the officers are trained and experienced in collecting
- and
- preserving evidence for trail. Combined, they are obtaining 4 to 5
- times
- as many convictions than before.
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- * Origin: GENERAL ALARM/MALTESE CROSS - SAN DIEGO, CA (1:202/123)
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