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Show There's Never A Dull Moment For Charlie And His Boys If you think the lives of policemen po-licemen in the Sugar House district dis-trict are dull and monotonous, take a look, at the figures below, be-low, gleaned from the official reports of Lt. Charles J. Larson, in charge of the police sub station sta-tion here. The office here answered an-swered 557 calls during the first five months of 1915. and the police po-lice car rolled up a total of lS.lif.2 miles and the Mils the boys answered covered everything every-thing from mean dogs to family fam-ily arguments. Actually, the law and ! -r situation hero i rxremioruKy gond. coil'i'Winc the area and the size of tbe popular ton. ;".t! ! the !erayt""."m r:n -int with I pride to its accomiiiishmenis. For one thing, despite the heavy traffic, Sugar House has not had 'a single fatal or really serious se-rious traffic accident in 1945, and the business area street markers have been repainted and restriped throughout, which has aided materially in cutting traffic difficulties. The men under Lt. Larson are on the job at busy corners during all the rush hours and thoy really keep things moving. Right now plans are afoot for new lighting for the business area, and as soon p "materials aie available this proect will go forward. : To gf t an idea of the variety of activit ies of the pnli:emen I 'giving such exc"!Icnt orotoction, j to ihe area, notice ilie fiiriri" J I for the first five months of 1915 I as listed below by Lt. Larson: Total arrests by officers this sub station, including bike thefts, shoplifting, burglary, firearms. larceny, molest-ing. molest-ing. escape, drunk, assault and battery, destruction of property, etc.. 54: total traffic tickets issued is-sued in this area. 305: value of property recovered by officers of this station. S3170. Below are listed various types of calls answered via rarlio and through. Sugar House police station sta-tion via telephone: . Open doors found to bu.-ine-s husC5 by police off iff r aft.T closing hours (oversight onlyl. 2.".: juvenile c.lls and difficult ies fall typrst. IIS: people ropoi-t-ing prowlers in house or neighborhood, neigh-borhood, CI; family arguments and difficulties, 12; attempted suicide, 2; ambulance calls answered an-swered within this area, 40; accident investigations and assisting as-sisting with same, 25: miscellaneous miscel-laneous (all types), 102: carrying carry-ing concealed weapons (cleared by arrest), 1: morals offense. 3; bicycles recovered and returned return-ed to owners (Sugar House only). 22; stolen cars recovered (one cleared by arrest). 3: peeping peep-ing Tom calls. 9; dog calls during dur-ing dog epidemic, 11; burglarie in business area (two cleared by arrest, two caught in act), 5: robbery (Sugar Iiou--c). none: safe jobs, none: state inspections made from Sugar House police station for business men and people of som beast for state li-I li-I cense plates, 9G. |