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RESOLVED. That the committee is to make pertinent inquiry and specifically
receive testimony concerning this matter from the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services, the State Fire Prevention Commission, the State Fire
Marshal, the Department of Maryland State Police, the Anne Arundel County
Police Department, and the Anne Arundel County Fire Investigation Bureau. In
addition, the committee is to question insurance company investigators and any
federal officials that might aid them in their study. Finally, the report of the 1972
September term of the Anne Arundel County Grand Jury relating to this matter is
to be reviewed and considered by the committee. Following its investigation, the
Committee shall submit a report of its findings to the 1974 General Assembly;
and, be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to Marvin Mandel,
Governor; Robert J. Lally, Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services; Edwin R. Tully, Deputy Secretary of the Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Services; Earl W. Smith, Chairman of the Fire
Prevention Commission; James C. Robertson, State Fire Marshal; Colonel
Thomas S. Smith, Superintendent of the Department of Maryland State Police;
Dr Carl N. Everstine, Director of the Department of Legislative Reference;
Joseph Alton, County Executive of Anne Arundel County; Raymond G. Thieme,
Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County; Edward A. Praley, Chief of the
Anne Arundel County Police; Harry W. Klasmeier, Fire Administrator for Anne
Arundel County and Robert Griffith, Chief of the Anne Arundel County Fire
Investigation Bureau.

Approved May 21, 1973.

No. 32
(Senate Joint Resolution 14)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Congress to take appropriate legislative
action to assist law enforcement agencies in providing safekeeping of confiscated
controlled dangerous substances.

WHEREAS, The people of this country have been recently shocked at the
disappearance of large quantities of confiscated heroin from the Baltimore City
and New York City police departments; and

WHEREAS, Disappearance of this dangerous drug evidence undermines public
confidence in our police and judicial institutions; and

WHEREAS, If we are to ever stem the growth of illicit narcotic and drug
distribution, our law enforcement agencies must exercise vigilant supervision of the
control and to insure swift and effective prosecution and conviction of those
accused of crime; and

WHEREAS, Assistance from our federal government might be the needed
catalyst to assist our police in assuring safekeeping of vital evidence and prevent
the recent regretful New York and Baltimore incidents; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Congress of the United States be requested to take appropriate legislative action to
assist the law enforcement agencies of our nation in developing an effective and
foolproof system for the care and safekeeping of dangerous drug evidence; and be