SIX-INCH WIRELESS USED BY THE POLICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 24 (Supplement)

SIX-INCH WIRELESS USED BY THE POLICE.

CONSTABLES ON BEAT TO RECEIVE MESSAGES. (Special to the “Star/*) LONDON, November 22. Scotland Yard officers and members of the Brighton police force co-operated to-day in experiments with a pocket wireless set which can be carried by every policeman while on his beat. A Scotland Yard wireless tender came to Brighton for the experiments, which were carried out secretly on the northern outskirts of Brighton. Messages were received from a station several miles away. The tests, which lasted more than an hour, were made with a set which weighed only lib 12oz. It is Gin long, 4Jin wide and ljin deep. The experiments were a complete success, and support the view that Brighton police will be equipped with the sets by the New Year. When a message is sent out a buzzing noise will warn the policeman that it is coming through. He will only have to put on a pair of light earphones to receive the message. This will not be in code. The Chief Constable of Brighton has long been anxious to equip policemen with pocket wireless and the results of experiments he has made have been communicated to the Home Office whose experts also conducted a series of tests. The set used to-day is the invention of a young London man, Mr L. C Dean, who has submitted it to the Home Office.