POLICE RADIOS AND TELEPHONES
POST OFFICE CONTROL (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 15. The installation and maintenance of all police radio and telephone equipment is now being carried out under the direction of the Post and Telegraph Department. Announcing this today, the Commissioner of Folice (Mr E. H. Compton) said that, some years ago, as a trial measure, a teleprinter service with limited hours of operation had been installed between several headquarters police stations. The instruments and circuits were rented from the Post and Telegraph Department, and operated by police personnel. Though the service had some advantages, a survey showed that the type and quantity of communications had not warranted the expense of maintaining what proved to be an unnecessary duplication of a service more efficiently provided by the Post and Telegraph Department, said Mr Comjt ton.
“It takes an expert to do an expert’s job,” he said, “and the police are confident that the Post and Telegraph Department will install and maintain communications to give the public and the force the best possible service."
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27377, 16 June 1954, Page 15
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