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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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room. In front of them, re- cessed in the desk, are rows of keysgiving access to lines from the policeheadquarters telephone switchboardover which the calls are received. A brief description of the emer-gency is noted on a slip of paper andpassed to the dispatcher. A quickglance at the master map indicatesthe disposition of available cars andenables the police officer to dispatchthe nearest vehicle directly to thescene in a matter of seconds. These radio patrol cars are wellequipped units. When we call Po-lice we do not necessarily want justa man in uniform with a gun. Per-haps a serious automobile accidenthas occurred and people have beeninjured. The police car, often thefirst to reach the scene, must be ableto give aid quickly and efficiently. To meet such daily emergencies,some police departments equip theirpatrol cars with items that seemstrange when one thinks of policeprotection in only its limited sense.A list of standard equipment mightinclude, for instance, fire extinguisher,
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Radio-equipped patrol cars of Newarks police depaj-tmeut 1947-48 Arms of the Law 215 rirst-aid kit, heavy jack, crowbars,axes, safety flares, and even a dog-catchers net. Still another form of ratlotele-phone service is available to policeorganizations: the telephone com-panies regular public offering, mobiletelephone service. This service, first offered at St.Louis in June, 1946, is really an ex-tension of the regular local and tolltelephone service, by means of radio,to mobile units. Subscribers to thisservice have, by means of two-wayradio telephone sets installed in theircars, access to any other customer ofthe Bell System whether served bywire or radio channels. Police in smaller communities—about 50 of them today—have foundthis service attractive, especiallywhere the cost of leasing or owninga private system might strain thelocal budget. This form of mobileservice has the further advantage ofenabling the public or police officialsto communicate directly with patrolcars from

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