POLICE PILLAR-BOXES.
MANY IN ENGLISH CITIES.
CONVENIENCE APPRECIATED
(Received January 3. 11.25 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 3. The police pillar-boxes instituted by Scotland Yard at the end of November have been adopted with remarkable speed in all the big cities of England. They are being introduced wholesale and are displacing the more costly and necessarily fewer sub-stations.
For instance 101 of these pillar-boxes already have been established at Bradford xihero formerly there were 12 sub-stations. The public now are brought into much closer touch with the police.
A message from London on November Jl9 stated Scotland Yard has organised Jin elaborate system of police posts similar to postal pillar-boxes, but coloured blue instead of red, and labelled " police. When the system is fully established in London the public will immediately be able to get into touch with any su "' •divisional station and summon a body of police or a motor-van to any place in the metropolitan area. In a case of emergency up to 20 police and detectives will be available within five minutes. The van contains a steel-lined cell and firstlid appliances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20454, 4 January 1930, Page 9
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