MAN-HUNT AID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

MAN-HUNT AID.

is I t TELEVISION FOR POLICE. le *. A picture of a " wanted " man, televised to Scotland Yard officials in the West End of London, resulted in his arrest within three-quarters of an hour. ' This was only a test, but it proved so successful that experiments have been 0 I started to develop this powerful aid to e crime detection. As soon as possible every police station n will be equipped with television appara■s tus, including special cameras and mobile e vans with receivers and transmitters, e Already experts working for Scotland ■ - Yard have transmitted over a 50-mile e radius, compared with the present 25 « miles used for entertainment purposes, e An authority on television told a Lonn don " Sunday Express" representative that the system will be perfected for police work within 12 months. " Here is an example of how the new n television camera, which needs no special e lighting, will work," he said. e ( j Secret Wave-lengths. o "It is so small that it can be con1, cealed in a room with a microphone, and i- will reveal the actions and conversation d of suspected persons to watchers in i. another part of the building. n " Criminals to-day use scientific e methods to outwit detection, and to make speedy escapes. " Television, in suspect cases, will out--3 - wit even the most scientific by its powers k of seeing, hearing and recording, without being seen or heard. " The police will operate on secret . wave-lengths. "In cases of national importance, a Q 'scrambled' transmission, similar to e long-distance radio telephony, wilj be r used. n "It will thus be impossible for would- ® be eavesdroppers to pick up official tele--11 vision broadcast." e