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Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (find matches)
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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alarm turret.This flexible arrange-ment permits the trans-fer of any calls receivedat the administrativeswitchboard to the alarmturret quickly when emer-gency action is needed. Telephone access to police protec-tion is not limited to subscriberscalling from home or office however,for New York police have spottedover 1700 police call boxes through-out the city. These green boxes withthe lettering Use this telephone tocall Police are unlocked and avail-able to any citizen. Direct lines linkthem to the nearest police precinctstation house. Taking lessons from experienceand trying to anticipate the unfore-seen are two of the factors that gointo the planning of all police com-munication arrangements, large andsmall. This is true in Newark, N. J., forinstance, where police protection forover 400,000 citizens is providedunder the supervision of John B.Keenan, Director of Public Safety.At Newark police headquarters, thenormal complement of trunk lines tothe nearest telephone company cen- 217
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The radiotelephone and teletypewriter room of the Ohio State Highway Patrol district headquarters at Findlayy 0. tral office is supplemented by sevenadditional lines to another central of-fice on the outskirts of the city.Should some unforeseen disasterjam the central office which nor-mally serves the headquarters switch-board, calls can be received over thisalternative route. These facilitiesalso provide outgoing service duringhours when the regular lines becomebusy with incoming calls. Here, as in all well-planned policesvstems, the emergency nature ofthe communication is the prime con-sideration. All facilities—switch-board positions, trunk lines, exten-sion lines, etc.—are provided in suf-ficient quantity for peak volumes, toassure adequate protection under allconditions. At the other end of the scale arethe communities which are too smallto maintain a police headquarters of-fice manned 24 hours a day. Forsuch communities, a special arrange-ment has been worked out, which 2l8

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