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Photograph caption dated August 7, 1959 reads "Visiting policeman - Ballistic expert and forensic chemist Clifford cromp checks .380 automatic that has just been test fired in crime lab. Yusuf Aydin, visiting policeman from Turkey, compares bullets using comparator microscope while Lt. Bedii Tang of the Turkish National Police Academy checks bullet recovery box for expended slug. Turkish policemen are two of many foreign officers who train in the Los Angeles sheriff's crime lab."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office--Officials and employees Men--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Crime laboratories--California--Los Angeles Firearms--California--Los Angeles Forensic ballistics--California--Los Angeles--Equipment and supplies Police exchange programs--California--Los Angeles Police--Turkey Los Angeles (Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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