VALUE OF TELEPHONES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 February 1931, Page 10

VALUE OF TELEPHONES

HOW PARIS FIGHTS CRIMP. SIX HUNDRED ALARM POSTS Striking; success lias attended the recent telephone system in Pans arranged l>y tire Prefect of Police. With a view to reducing the number of burglaries and crimes of violence, j especially at night, it was provided I that any person needing the urgent 1 help of the police had only to go vO the I nearest telephone and call eitn.r i “Police, Help!” or “Danton Police. “Daiton” is the exchange to winch tne head Police Prefecture belongs. Such a call, given preference mir all others, was immediate,y registeieo nt the Prefecture, and was sufficient to send a flying squad of police in a fast car to tho spot whence the call tiad come. How well this system work- ' ad! is shown by the fact that during August alone, it led to 71 arrests being 01 The 'system is now to he improved upon by the installation in variou main thoroughfares of the city of' 600 miblio alarm posts somewhat resembling, fire-alarm posts. The person calling the police in an emergency has only to break the glass of the box to find him self in immediate touch with - police headquarters. A light on a large p •of the city will indicate to the head of the Hying squad the exact spot at which "assistance is required. , IT> I Recently, as. the result of the Dan i ton Police” call sent from a.publicAele phone the police were able to catch j u burglar red-handed! in a large stor .