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Show S. H. Police Dept. Records Busiest Year In History The Sugar House police department de-partment had one of the busiest years in its history during 1946, according to the annual report released to The Bulletin by Lt. Charles J. Larson, chief of the local station. Lieutenant Larson said, "This report is one we are I proud of for the large volume of police business that we handled, han-dled, which far exceeded 1945's." Local police answered a I'ecord-breaking I'ecord-breaking 2010 calls last year, an increase of approximately 500 calls over 1915. Xo Fatalities For the second straight year there were no traffic fatalities in the Sugar House business district. dis-trict. This is a remarkable record rec-ord for as Lieutenant Larson says, "The matter of handling traffic . . . has become one of our major jobs the past year. The growth of traffic has increased in-creased tremendously and requires re-quires officers on duty throughout through-out the afternoon every day of the week." So great has been the traffic that a four-wav "No I arrests were made. The ambulance ambu-lance car made 122 trips. Two hundred forty-one escorts were given to business, night depos-i'.ries. depos-i'.ries. parades, etc. The Sugar House business area suffered 12 burglaries, six of which have been solved by arrests, according to Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Larson. The first Sugar House holdup in three years occurred last year at the Frances service station. sta-tion. The bandits were later apprehended ap-prehended attempting a similar crime in a southern state, however. how-ever. Property valued at $21,169 was recovered during the past year. This does not include the recovery of Mrs. Lunt's purse with over $9000 in it. The local force recovered S14.104 worth of property in 1945. A break down on the various types of calls made in 1946 is as follows: Five mental cases; 74 lost children chil-dren and etc.: 14 molest cases; four rape and attempted rape; 19 cars recovered; 24 bicycles recovered: re-covered: 25 Peeping Toms; 120 family arguments: 287 prowlers- Left Turn" sign was purchased to facilitate the handling of traffic traf-fic at the intersection of 21st South and llh East. Traffic dangers and hardships should be lessened considerably with the proposed installation of the new lighting system sometime this year, however. ' Force Strengthened Two men were added to the force during 1946 raising the total personnel to eight. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it has been announced announc-ed that Commissioner Romney and Chief Crowther are planning plan-ning to add more men to the Sugar House sub-station in the future. two suicides: five indecent exposures; ex-posures; 265 juvenile calls: 39 fire calls: 46 state atomobile license li-cense inspections: 28 noisy par-' ties; 26 county calls: 632 mis-cellneous; mis-cellneous; one safe job (South East Theater). Excellent Record The Sugar House police with their limited facilities and tremendous tre-mendous responsibilities have accomplished a remarkable job" During a year in which traffic deaths in Utah were a daily occurrence, oc-currence, the local force has given giv-en Sugar House an excellent traffic record despite the fact that this community is one of the most heavily congested traffic traf-fic areas1 in the state. Lieutenant Larson and his staff are desirous of bettering this record. "It is our aim and sincere desire to better our record rec-ord for 1946 and we want to render ren-der the most courteous, expedient expe-dient police service that we have at our command," stated Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Larson. Commends Public . . . "May I personally express my sincere appreciation to all business busi-ness men of Sugar House and the Southeast district for their splendid cooperation with us The local station received a new two-way radio car. In addition, ad-dition, Special Officer Willard De Rose's car was equipped with a two-way radio. Thus, together with the ambulance car, these cars give the Sugar House police po-lice three completely equipped two-way radio cars. These cars traveled a total of 51,018 miles last year. Telephone Equipment . . . Another outstanding improve ment. which the local force acquired ac-quired was the new telephone equipment, the first in Salt Lake. With this equipment lo- cal police can tell when the Salt Lake station is phoning them whether they are in the sub-sttion or not. A horn on op of the plaza sounds when sub-station or not. A horn on then be answered on the plaza phone which also has an out- atso the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce for its assistance and to all civic clubs and the public as a' whole." The Southeast is deeply indebted in-debted to Lieutenant Larson and. his staff for rendering an extraordinary ex-traordinary fine service side dial system. In event the call is not answered a red light on the plaza remains aglow until un-til the call is completed. 216 Arrests . . . During the past year 657 traffic traf-fic citations were given and 216 |