| Show All A Ain in Days Day's Work Police Always Alert For Up Hurry-Up Calls By n y Keith otte on You say that Santa C Claus Glaus aus is stuck in your chimney Now dont don't get excited lady Dont Don't hang up Weve We've got to have your address addre B before we can send help Will Vill you give Sive me that address again slowly All Allright Allright Allright right lady That looks like a job for the firemen Well We'll call them and they'll send help Immediately Within a few minutes a fire department de department de de- ladder trek is on lt Its way A short time later old Santa has been dislodged from one of the rather small chimneys which contractors contractors contractors con con- tractors are putting into houses these days has unloaded a few gifts and is on his way to the next point of call all A little fetched far-fetched you say Not at all aU In effect that is the sort of call with which the Salt Lake City police department dispatcher dispatcher dispatcher dis dis- dis- dis copes every day I According to official tabulations b by far the greatest number of ot such calls are arc listed as minor in the department records Police dispatchers and cars handled handled handled han han- such calls in the first 10 months o of this year car But there Is the thc serious vide side to this work too First calls on major cases case for the same period of time totaled 2330 These included in In- formation about shootings knifings knifings knifings ings robbery theft sex ca cases es and the like In addition 1686 ambulance cases were handled 2513 accident cases and stolen automobiles from Utah and neighboring n states were recovered through coordination coordination coordination tion between the dispatcher and radio cars For the benefit of those who feel it takes an intolerable length of time for tor a police car to get to the scene of ot an actual or imagined disaster the record shows the average arrival time to be 36 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes from the time the call can is first received received- Receiving Receiving- little public recognition recognition recognition tion for his work the dispatcher handles all calls with a maximum speed and efficiency in a minimum of time His action coupled with that of officers in the cars may save a human life lite or your pet cat from distress at the top of a telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone pole where it has been chased by a dog Working an eight hour shift with one day off each week are ore nine of these men upon whom so many people depend They are Lt Clayton Clayton Clayton Clay Clay- ton Blank and Officers C C. H H. Christensen Chris Chris- Harry K K Ernest H. H Morgan Louis W. W Duncan Lorenzo A. A Bleyl Joseph M. M Ferrin Ralph C. C Watson Vatson a and d Allan Denslow |
