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FOCUSING IN - SOME INTERESTING FACTS | | - In 1730, Daniel Defoe wrote an essay entitled, "An Effective Scheme for the Immediate Prevention of Street Robberies and Suppressing All Other Disorders of the Night", which recommends taking the pulse as a method of identifying a criminal.
- The first modern polygraph was constructed in 1921, by John Larson, a medical student at the University of California.
- Globally, crimes against property are more frequently reported than crimes against person, because insurance can more easily be claimed for the former.
- The 'safest' region of South Africa is also the poorest - the Northern Province, where the ratio of reported crime is the lowest in the country.
- In the United States of America, cheque fraud is considered by many as the number one crime facing police agencies.
- OF&A has increased their overseas network by becoming a member of the Association of British Investigators.
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