HOW PARIS FIGHTS CRIME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17410, 7 November 1930, Page 11

HOW PARIS FIGHTS CRIME

600 'PHONE ALARM POSTS STRIKING SUCCESS I>aMs. Sept. 26. Striking success has attended the recent telephone system arranged bj t Perfect of Police. With a view of reducing the niimoei of burglaries and crimes of violence in Paris, especially fit night, it was provided that any person needing the tirgelit help of the police had only logo to (fie nearest telephone and call either “Police. Help ” or “Danloii. Rohee. “Dimtou" is the exchange to which the head Police Prefecture belongs. Shell a call, given preference over all others, was immediately registered at the Prefecture, and was sufficient to send a Hyiiig squad of police in a- fas car to the spot whence the call had come. ITow well this system worked is shown by the fact that during Augustalone it- led to seventy-one arrests being piado in Paris. . It is now to be improved up bn by the installation in Various main thoroughfares of the city of 600 public alarm posts, somewhat resembling fire-alarm posts. The'person calling the police in an emergency has only to break tiie glass of the box to find himself in immediate touch .with police headquarters. A light on a large- plan of the city Will indicate to the head of the flying squad tlio exact spot at which assistance is required. Only yesterday, as the result- of the “Danlon. Police” call sent- from a public telephone, the police were able to catch a burglar red-handed in a. largo store.