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Deputy Commissioner Peachey specializes in science to track culprits but is
just as keenly interested in crime prevention.

IT MAY sound incongruous but
robably no man would be happier

o see the Utopian dream of a crime-
ss world realized than Deputy Com-
nissioner Roger Peachey who has
pent 30 years of his life in tracking
riminals and developing scientific
ystems for bringing law-breakers to
ustice. Those who know him well
re of the opinion that he is just as
eenly interested in crime prevention
s he is in crime detection.

Professionally no man could be
10re zealous and determined in solv-
1g cases that come before the B.C.
rovincial Police. It is an essential
1 the line of duty; for the good of
ociety in general.

But there is no sadistic streak in
he Deputy Commissioner that gives
im any personal satisfaction in be-
1g an instrument in taking away a
ian’s liberty by getting him sent-
nced to a term in a penitentiary.

The Deputy Commissioner is a
ian endowed with more than the
verage number of human qualities.

He blends kindness and tolerance
rith efficiency and firmness.

He has the respect of every mem-
er of the force. They realize that
Ithough he may be exacting in his
emands for accuracy he is always
ir.

The accuracy upon which he so
rernly insists, is essential for the
ood of the force and for the opera-
ion of the Criminal Investigation
epartment which he has played an
mportant part in building up since
aa ecnizetion of the system in

4.

To a young policeman he is a
‘fend and counsellor as well as an
istructor and example.

Made Deputy Commissioner two
ears ago his promotion came as rec-
gnition of nearly 30 years service
uring which he had proved himself
s an administrator and leader.

For 20 years of that time he had
layed a leading part in building up
he many sections of the Criminal
nvestigation Department which
alled for an entirely new and up-

YINETEENTH EDITION

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Deputy Commisstoner Roger Peachey, M.C.

to-date system of criminal records in
a re-organization which was started

in 1924. Great credit is due to Dep-
uty Commissioner Peachey for the
fact that the department today em-
braces the best in photographic and
fingerprint technique and includes an
up-to-date firearms registry, modus
operandi section and has at its call
specialists in the field of ballistics
and other sciences which often are
indispensable to police investigations.

In active service with the 3rd
C.M.R. in the first great war he won

a commission on the field, was
awarded the Military Cross and men-
tioned in dispatches. He was woun-
ded after seeing service in most of
the major battles in France.

In the last war he served his coun-
try again as a member of the Joint
Services Security Intelligence Board
whose principal function was that of
co-ordinating the work of army,
navy, air force and police in preserv-
ing the security of Canada’s Pacific
Coast.

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