Radio-Equipped Police Patrol

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 38, 3 April 1931, Page 5

Radio-Equipped Police Patrol

-w Exciting Experiences

THE police of West Australia are having the same exciting experiences with their wireless equipped patrol ears as has been the case in Sydney and Melbourne during the past four or five years. Just before radio was provided for the use of the police, the Department was equipped with a patrol car of some-

what ancient design, and on one memorable occasion a party of detectives in this car had the experience of seeing a party of motor bandits outdistance them on a straight road in a new modern car. The wireless patrol is now provided with a car capable of nearly one hundred miles an hour. Recently as the patrol was quietly purring along the streets of Perth a call from headquarters advised that a burglar was working in a house at Claremont. At the moment the police car turned into the street a man dodged into a receding alcove, but he was just too slow to escape notice. He was subsequently captured, and is now in gaol. On one dark night a trio of motor thieves, finding themselves being overtaken by the police wireless car, sud-

denly stopped in a cloud of dust, placed the car cross-ways on the road, stirred up more dust, and ran into the scrub. The object, of course, was to cause the patrol car to collide with the abandoned car, and the attempt was very nearly successful. Several times within the last few weeks the Perth Police, by responding to an urgent call by wireless, have eaptured thieves with the booty still in their possession. Altogether, the wireless service is proving a potent ally. to the custodians of law and order.