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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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a villagepolice or county sheriffs oflice, some-thing else again in a St. Louis, or aBoston, or a New York City. In a typical day in Manhattan, forinstance, more than 2000 incomingcalls, mostly emergency, are handledover the headquarters alarm turret,and many of these calls in turn setup a chain reaction involving othercalls within the police organizationitself. To illustrate what goes on behindthe scenes in a big-city police organi-zation, lets look at the set-up pro-vided by the New York TelephoneCompany for the New York City po-lice, headed by Commissioner ArthurW. Wallander. Divided as it is intofive boroughs and 105 precincts, NewYork City presents a really complexproblem for efllicient police coordina-tion. The police and the telephone com-pany have together worked out aplan whereby all calls for assistanceare routed immediately to the policeheadquarters of the borough in whichthe call originated. By dialing theoperator and asking for police, a 2l6 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER
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The alarm turret (right) and administrative switchboard (left background) of the NewYork City Police Department at headquarters of the Borough of Manhattan citizen is connected immediately toa special alarm turret at boroughpolice headquarters. At 240 CenterStreet, headquarters for the Boroughof Manhattan, for instance, the callwould come in over one of 21 trunklines from a telephone central officeto a switchboard connecting with al-most 200 telephones and manned by12 patrolmen. Here the reassuring voice of a spe-cially trained policeman calms theexcited caller, and gets all the infor-mation available about the exact loca-tion and nature of the emergency. Thus communication is directlywith police officers who can them-selves initiate any necessary action.There is no confusion from transferof calls to other offices, no repeti-tion of lengthy information when sec-onds may save lives. What the police telephone attend-ant does after getting one of thesecalls depends on the nature of theem

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