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Wilson, Orlando W.

Born: 1900 AD
Died: 1972 AD, at 72 years of age.

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US police officer and law enforcement reformer

 

prominent advocate of professionalization movement for police

 

patrol officer in Berkeley Police Department 1921-1925

 

police chief of Wichita 1928-1939

 

dean of school of criminology at University of California at Berkeley 1950-1960

 

police commissioner of Chicago 1960-1967

 

wrote textbook "Police Administration" 1950

 

protege of August Vollmer


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