INTERNATIONAL POLICE RADIO.
Little known to the general public, a wireless station was set up in Berlin in 1929 serving the international police cooperation in the detection of crime, the apprehension of criminals and the interchange of general police information. Participating in this service ai’e the police of the following countries : Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and Rumania. Holland and Switzerland co-operate, inasmuch as they only receive messages, but do not transmit any. The Berlin headquarters of this system are equipped with three wireless senders, a long-wave sender of 20 kilowatts and two shortwave senders of 600 and 700 watts each. The long-wave sender transmits three times daily messages of a general character, while the two short-wave senders serve the purpose of transmitting, messages to individual 1 countries.
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Western Star, 21 June 1935, Page 3
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130INTERNATIONAL POLICE RADIO. Western Star, 21 June 1935, Page 3
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