SPEEDING UP SCOTLAND YARD
CRIMINALS ARRESTED SIX MINUTES AFTER ALARM (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 3rd April. London criminals and policemen both worked harder in 1936 than ever before, according to the preliminary statistics in the report Si Sir Philip Game, Commissioner of Police. The increase in crime is principally through further outbreaks of burglary and housebreaking—-but there has been an increase in the number of criminals caught. This is put down to the new Information Room, which has been installed at Scotland Yard and contains powerful wireless apparatus which is in constant touch with every station in the London area.
It receives nearly 100,000 messages a year from police and public and the average time between receipt of the message and the arrest is six minutes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1937, Page 8
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