. Bell telephone magazine . ewriter room of the Ohio State Highway Patrol district headquarters at Findlayy 0. tral office is supplemented by sevenadditional lines to another central of-fice on the outskirts of the some unforeseen disasterjam the central office which nor-mally serves the headquarters switch-board, calls can be received over thisalternative route. These facilitiesalso provide outgoing service duringhours when the regular lines becomebusy with incoming calls. Here, as in all well-planned policesvstems, the emergency nature ofthe communication is the prime con-siderat
. Bell telephone magazine . ewriter room of the Ohio State Highway Patrol district headquarters at Findlayy 0. tral office is supplemented by sevenadditional lines to another central of-fice on the outskirts of the some unforeseen disasterjam the central office which nor-mally serves the headquarters switch-board, calls can be received over thisalternative route. These facilitiesalso provide outgoing service duringhours when the regular lines becomebusy with incoming calls. Here, as in all well-planned policesvstems, the emergency nature ofthe communication is the prime con-sideration. All facilities—switch-board positions, trunk lines, exten-sion lines, etc.—are provided in suf-ficient quantity for peak volumes, toassure adequate protection under allconditions. At the other end of the scale arethe communities which are too smallto maintain a police headquarters of-fice manned 24 hours a day. Forsuch communities, a special arrange-ment has been worked out, which 2l8 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER. Teletypewriter equipment in the headquarters at Columbus of the Ohio State HighwayPatroly of which Col. George Mingle is superintendent involves a combination of radio andspecial reversed-charge toll service. During hours when the local policeoffice is not open, police protectionfor the community is usually main-tained by one or more patrol carsconnected with state or county radiosystems. The problem is to providemeans for getting requests for emer-gency police assistance from the vari-ous towns and small communitiesthroughout the county to the radiocenter in the shortest possible timeand at minimum cost. In such cases, the procedure issomething like this. The telephonecompany operator, upon receiving acall for police assistance, attemptsfirst to complete the call to the localpolice station. If the station doesnot answer, the operator completesthe call to the state or county radiocenter. At the radio center a police-man takes down the details of thecall and
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