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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (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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m and are similar to the equipment provided in the privateline service used by business organizations and the press. The Eight-State Police Teletypewriter System Readers of Eastern newspapers often see references to thepolice sending out an eight-state alarm. These alarms aresent out over the private line teletypewriter systems of thepolice in the group of eight Eastern states named above. Thestate and municipal police in these states, through interstateteletypewriter connections which tie together key points inthe various state-wide systems, can function practically as aunit in their operations. They form the so-called Eight-StatePolice Teletypewriter System. This network is, in effect, agigantic alarm system by which police in one city can spreadalarms to the police of 350 other communities, and serves dayand night to protect 35,000,000 people throughout 125,000square miles, an area approximately equivalent to that of GreatBritain or of Italy. 164 THE TELETYPEWRITER HELPS THE POLICE
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165 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY Because the automobile is used so extensively in connectionwith crime, it is necessary that the police work closely with themotor vehicle registration bureaus of the various states. Toprovide access to the motor vehicle records, the Eight-Statesystem connects with the Motor Vehicle Bureau in each statecovered by the system where there is such a bureau. Throughthese connections, state and municipal police units are able tomake rapid checks on car and driver licenses. The police ofBuffalo, New York, for example, have no difficulty in deter-mining, say, from the Motor Vehicle Bureau at Hartford, Con-necticut, that an abandoned Connecticut car has previouslybeen reported as stolen or that a car driver, suspected of operat-ing a stolen car, has a police record of convictions for car thefts.As a result of this cooperative effort, as much as one-half of thepolice communications handled over the state-wide teletype-writer systems have to do with automobile registr

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