A distinguished police career im Shanghai will end with the departure, next week, of Det. Sub-Insp. V. S. Bebenin who has been a member of the Shanghai Municipal Police for nearly fourteen years. He will leave the Force on Sunday and expects to sail a few days later for the United States, where he will make his future home.
Mr. Bebenin joined the Settlemem Police on December 23; 1923, and was very soon assigned to the Crime Branch as one of the first Russian detectives in that department. Later, after he had been promoted to subinspector, he spent two years in the uniform branch, to which he was transferred at his own request. Even during this period, however, he was twice called in to work on important CIP". cases, including the celebrated Chartered Bank cheque fraud in 1034, in which he made three "inside" arrests. Altogether, he has specialized in fraud cases and is widely feared by the section of the criminal gentry living by this offence.
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