Wireless Telegraphy for Police Purposes: British Columbia Practice
| Date | 01 January 1930 |
| Author | Thomas W. S. Parsons |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3000300110 |
| Published date | 01 January 1930 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Wireless
Telegraphy
for Police
Purposes: British Columbia Practice
By
INSPECTOR
THOMAS.
W. S. PARSONS
B.C. Police, Canada
IN a report of the Fifth Meeting of the International Criminal
Police Conference at Berne in September 1928, the
Police
Journal (Vol.
II,
p. 166) drew attention to two matters of
general interest which were discussed: first, the allocation
of wireless or radio waves for police use, and, second, whether
an international bureau dealing exclusively with records of
international criminals ought to be set up.
The
remarks regarding the use of wireless communication
in connection with police work were as follows :
'The
first is the question of the allocation of wireless
waves for the use of police of all countries. At the Inter-
national Radio Telegraph Convention, signed at Washington on
25th November 1927, a band of wave lengths between 3,000
and 8,000 metres was provisionally allocated for the use of
police forces.
The
Sub-Committee which dealt with this
question at Berne discovered at once that under present con-
ditions any wave length between 3,000 and 8,000 was useless
for any police-owned wireless installation. No police force
owned a wireless set powerful enough to transmit on so long
a wave.
In
the majority of countries up to the present time
the police have made arrangements under which they receive
some sort of preferential treatment from the existing private
or Government wireless installations,
but
in only a very few
countries are there any police-owned wireless sets.
In
Germany there is a considerable number, and many successful
experiments have been carried out.
In
Great Britain there are
a few;
but
the real success of wireless in this country, so far as
police work is concerned, has been the perfection of a system
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