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wtih. $ . : _ 3 . ‘ we ) 16% of our Special Agents today fall within this category and this number in- cludes some of our best men. ~ Modern crime detection methods are developing so rapidly that we con- sider it imperative to bring all of our old Special Agents back to Washington every olightecen months for an intensive retraining course. Our new Agents are given a very thorough three and one-half months! training course at Washington before being assigned to active field work in the respective field divisions to which they become attached. . In July, 1935, Director Hoover instituted the FBI National Police Academy, designed to train in Washington carefully selected, outstanding lo- cal law enforcement officers from al] over the United States. These specially selected officers are trained by our experts in Washington very intensively ' for a three months! period, their training course including not only the general subject matter taught cur investigators, but embracing also courses by outstanding experts from all over the United States in traffic problems * and other similar local law enforcement matters over which ovr organization obviously has no jurisdiction. ; To date, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has conducted five such training Classes for local officers. totaling 152. These representatives of local law enfcrasment organizations come from the smallest namiets and the largest citics and are intentionally selected to cover the entire area of the United States. These training classes for local officers have been eminently successfix] and almost without exception the men attending these classes have, upon their return to their local jurisdictions, been given promotions ‘and many of them placed in active charge of the training school operations of their _ respective organizations. 7 It is my understanding that most of the. countries which you repre- Sent do not have to contend, as 2 general thing, with the desperate type of armed criminal-we are sometimes called upon to combat. However, I believe you will be interested in the firearms training afforded ovr men. We have had the legal authority to carry weapons only since it was granted to us by the Con- gress of the United States on May 18, 1934. very one of our mon is qualified in the use of every weapon from the machine gun on down. Every official and every man in our organization is required to requalify with every type of weap- on once every ninety days. During the first two years, following the passage , of the above mentioned Act, all of us were required to requalify with every type of weapon once every thirty days. As a result, today 68% of our men are expert shots, while the other 12% are sharpshooters or marksmen, based on the Army marksmanship qualifications. Our firearms training includes the use of the deadly Colt Monitor machine gun that fires at the rate of 475 times a min- ute and will kill you at three miles’ distance. This particular woapon will take the motor-block out of an automobile at a thousand yards. The so-called: "Tommy Gun" or Thompson sub-machine gun is prabably the favorite weapon of the gangster. We use the Thompson sub-machine gun also. It fires at’ the rate of 600 times a minute and will literally cut your body in two in about two spc- onds' time. Wo also use the .351 automatic rifle, the Springfield army rifle one Sporter model with a short barrel for uso from automobiles, the “sawed-off automatic and repeating shotguns, sometimes called riot guns, and the gas gun. meee ret are tte ee eS. , e er hee) see Ma