A Sydney surburban municipality has asked the Inspector-General of Police to provide for its police an electric button similar to that one supplied to the New York city police. The old oily and dirty “bull's-eye" has been discarded by the Now York City force since the invention of the perfectly cleanly and more searching electric button. Though the Melbourne police are equipped with a “ bull’s-eye ” 1 for night duty, ft is an implement neither the Sydney nor the Brisbane police are supplied with, and the request for the electric button proves that a search light for night duty by the police is considered useful oven by people outside the Police Force. It seems strange that among the many suggestions offered for the suppression of larrikinism no one proposed the light, silently rolling patrol waggon introduced by the chief of the San Francisco police, and which was a perfect success.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2213, 23 May 1894, Page 3
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149Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Times, Volume LVI, Issue 2213, 23 May 1894, Page 3
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