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...Readers. Chief instrument of Perón's rough-'em-&-rule-'em policy is a branch of the police called "Political Order." Headed by ex-Detective Camilo Racana, the branch is now estimated to number some 50,000 plainclothesmen and undercover informants, including a large female contingent and a trained squad of lip readers. One day last week, an architect going home by streetcar noticed a particularly ramshackle bus that had just had a new paint job. Without thinking, he turned to the passenger beside him and asked: "Wonder why they wasted paint on that old wreck...
...Cambridge police have jurisdiction as far as the Boylston St. side of the Larz Anderson Bridge. The bridge itself, and sections of the Soldiers Field Road, come under the authority of the Metropolitan District police. An MDC official said several plainclothesmen will be stationed on the bridge and along the road...
Three details of plainclothesmen from three police forces will patrol the Soldiers Field area Saturday in an effort to crack down on would-be scalpers of Yale game tickets...
...whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three to watch for second-story men and the light-footed correntisti, hit & run thieves who rely on their fleetness to escape the law. By summer's end, the mayor's campaign had paid off with hundreds of arrests and the recovery...
...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...