POLICE ALARM BOXES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 822, 16 November 1929, Page 27

POLICE ALARM BOXES

NEW PARIS SYSTEM WILL SERVE PUBLIC ro WORK LIKE FIRE SIGNAL ; , j The f*aris Municipal Council lias ' just voted funds for the installation i of 800 special police alarm boxes; witli telephones, which are being in-, stalled and are expected to be ready j for use by 19J0. 1 Unlike the police telephone service j J In other cities, these telephones will | I be for the use of the general public! as well as for.members of the police j j force. The alarm boxes will be: ' placed at all important intersections, I ' on the various bridges and at all the j ! gates to the city, and at different ] | points in each city ward. The alarms ! will function in the same way as the ; Paris tire alarms, to which the public j is already accustomed. In order to discourage false alarms ’ ; there will be a heavy fine for those | who use the sigua without cause. To turn in ar» alarm one breaks a glass j and turns a handle. This operation lights a lamp on the chart in the i | district police station, showing the 1 alarm box which has just operated. ; The person who turns in the alarm can then give particulars to the police officer on duty. The moment the alarm sounds. ! however, a small police motor vehicle I with two men. first-aid supplies. , stretcher and various arms and ini- ; [dements, will leave immediately for ■ the scene of alarm, prepared to deal I With a robbery, a shooting or an j accident. J I For members of the police force | the telephone service will operate to j call reinforcements, to communicate ro section stations and between alarm ; boxes in case of emergency traffic I jams or other need for rapid instruc-; I tions. . __ ! j Paris in the past two years has; mailt numerous innovations tor public l in an effort to modernise 1 the police system. Police calls may he turned in rapidly on all Pi'iva.e • nhoucs by calling “Danton-Poliee ' a nd every bridge in Paris is now provided with emergency life saving ap- : pa,aruc which can be used by the public. The police service has organised an efficient motorised se ce ' for prevention and of u<> - - and a corps of air police is now being