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Page Eighty-six

A call is recetved and the policeman proceeds immediately to source of trouble.

and says: ‘‘Prince Rupert to 151, go
to such-and-such a place—”’ and the
vehicle is on its way. Number of
the patrol wagon on the police rec-
ords is 151.

“Car 151 to Prince Rupert—.”

This occurred at 9:45 Saturday
night while the van was at the east
end of the city. From the loudspeaker
attached to the side of the car, just
to the rear of the driver's seat, Corp-
oral Taylor’s voice instructed Con-
tables Simons and Turner to go to
a downtown taxi stand and contact
Constable George Redhead.

Five minutes later, they stopped
and loaded a shabbily-dressed woman
and took her to the police station
where they took her in and left again
immediately.

“Something to do with theft,”
said Constable Turner, who had not
taken time to get all the facts. It
was Constable Redhead’s case.

The cruise had just begun again
when a call came through to go to a
beer parlor. There, they found the
disturbance over. A waiter had just
put out an Indian who had tried to
take on a little refreshment.

A disturbance report from Cow
Bay was telephoned to the police
office and relayed to the van which
was then at Seventh Street. The
call was made by a man from a neigh-
bor’s home, just after the owner of
the telephone had gone to bed. Inter-
ested he decided to get up and see
what was doing. He got on the
scene three minutes after the police.

The call did not amount to much.
Merely a woman taking her husband
to task—highly vocally—for drink-
ing too much. The neighbor had
believed someone was being killed.

The calls kept coming in—none
of them particularly big, but all of
them adding to enforcement of order-
liness in the city and to the labors
of those whose job it is to keep things
in line. And in that way the radio
is turning out to be a big help.

Installed recently by Wilfred
Conlan, Victoria, chief radio super-
visor, B.C. Police, the frequency
modulation set is of a type standard
in all radio cars in the force. In the
south, literally dozens of cars are
connected to the same circuit. Indeed,
it is not until a large number of cars
are operating on such a circuit that
the greatest relative efficiency is
achieved. But the fact that at present
it is only a two-way hook-up does
not mean that its installation has not
been a forward step.

“If we had that radio hook-up
when the ‘prowler’ was around here
a couple of years ago, we would have
caught him in short order,’’ Sgt. Pot-
terton said. “It was poor communi-
cations that beat us on that.”

As an investment in safety, its
cost is not high. Cost of installation
was borne by the city, but mainten-
ance will be charged to the police
force, so that under the present con-
tract between the force and the city,
at least, the community will not
have to pay a great deal extra.

Said one bystander as he watched
the police van pull up to a disturb-
ance within minutes after it started:
“Boy those fellows can sure get here
in a hurry.”

The answer lies in four small metal
boxes, two in the police office and two
in the van, in which science and
technical skill have allied themselves
on the side of law and order.

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