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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 23

The novel police system adopted by Chicago a year and a half ngo is sa ; d to have proved perfectly successful. The city is <J*?i«lwd into twenty-four districts, in each of which is a depot contfcifing three policemen, a wagon, and four horses. Throughout the -city are police boxes, looking like the old-fashioned sentry' boxes and provi.led with telegraph signals and telephones. The door is kept locked but can be opened by anybody heeding police aid, key. being liberally distributed among stores and residences. Private individuals can thus send an alarm by telegraph, just as we transmit fire calle in this city. Bach key is numbered ami registered, %ad, after being used to open a box, is held fast in the lock until rele ised by a policeman. Thus mischievously false alarms are detected, VVhen an alarm is received at a depot, the police on duty there drive quickly to the box in response. Tue telephones are used by patrolmen to make periodical reports, and thereby roundsman are dona away with and every- man is directly nnder the control of his eaptuia. Wh*n a patrolman makes an arrest, he does not desert his beat, but calls *the wagon to take the prisoner away. Householders njay -h%n* .private signal boxes by paying the cost. The superfutendant declares that his force is much better controlled than before, that crimes are fewer that criminals are more easily caught, and that the expense is no greater. — Exchange. • •