Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-08
POLICE HELLO PLAN
Central Bureau Formally Established
Today at Headquarters.
THE OFFICIAL ORDERS PROMULGATED
Three Operators Assigned, Each to
Serve Eight Hours.
FIRST MESSAGE RECEIVED

mo dead animals.
| No arrests.
Nothing"
This was what Policeman E. L. Phillips
said at the police headquarters telephone
at noon today. Then he added, %. X. No.
| D." and the central telephone bureau in
connection with the police department was
formally opened.
Inspector Mattingly will be the officer in
| charge of the new bureau, for the reason
! that the telephone is in his room
This morning the inspector received from
Maj. Moore copy of the order establish
| Ing the bureau, which was published in
| Saturdays Star.
The Operators.
Another order received this morning
reads
by order Of the Commissioners:
The bureau shall be known as the CEN
trail telephone bureau. There shall be three
| operators, who shall serve, alternating
| first, O'Clock am. to o. clock p. M; Sec
ond o'clock Am. to - o'clock pm; third
| II o'clock pm. to O'Clock am.
The operator on duty shall remain In
| his Office constantly, to send all messages
ordered telephoned by the ma jor and super
| intendent or his authorized representative,
and to receive all communica tons from the
several precinct stations, other institutions
and the pubic when police business
In sending messages they shall be
handed to the operator I'm writing. and he
shall receive all messages in writing to
enable him to correctly record the same.
All police messages of whatsoever nature
| or kind shall be recorded in the telephone
book as promptly as relief from the instru-
ment Will permit, and each operator shall
have messages received by him entered
l L.,
his successor.
Must Report In Detail.
'The several police lieutenants shall see
to 1t that all arrests and reported viola
tons of the law, accidents, fires, and. in
fact, everything that transpires in their
respective precincts OF public or police
interest are telephonei to the central
bureau promptly, AMI they have been so
instructed in general orders.
mere the ends of justice demand 'pri-
vacy, the sender of messages shall so state
and record at the station private The
receiver at the central bureau shall like
wise mark such messages, when received
private
The operators shall communicate all els
patches IN writing to the major and super
intendent his authorized represent alive
after having recorded the same who shall
furnish oil information to the press ard
public under conditions already provided,
ana every facility shall be extended by the
major and superintendent or his author
lied representative for obtaining any de-
tails through the central bureau for the
press, but it will not be necessary to record
SUCH questions as to details.
Operators shall report i'm writing all
oead animals the locations of which have
peen teiephoned them, noting from where
such reports come, to the majcr and su-
perintendent or his authorized representa-
tive at . o'clock Am. and 30 o'clock D. m"
Mai. MOOre's Instructions
Major Moore also issued the following
general order instructions concerning the
above order:
CONNIE ncinS Monday, the Sth day of
November, 1897, at IL O'Clock M. there
Will be inauSurated at police headquarters
a central telephone bureau with three op-
orators, alternating eight hours each, in
attendance l-leutenants OF the several
precincts VIII instruct their stationkeepers
beginning on that day and at that hour
10 telephone to the central bureau every
item OF police information of which they
make record, either in the blotter or on
me record OF arrests. This information
VIII be telephoned by the stationkeepers
promptly on its receipt, they being careful
In sending proper Names locations time
ana descriptions, in all cases requiring the
operator at headquarters to repeat the
message SO sent, and IN receiving messages
from police headquarters the stationkeen-
ers VIII repeat to the operator at the CEN
"a al paisdu inns IN order TO secure accu-
racy.
BY every item is intended names of
all persons arrested with description and
onense charged, location of dead animals
dangerous holes, broken pavements, fires,
accidents. etc, and, in fact, everything
that becomes matter of record at the
stations and which pertains TO the public
welfare
Confidential Information,
w neie infor4iation is of confidential
nature, in making entries at the stations
the stationkeepers will mark the same
private. and in sending the message will
SO state to the operator at the central
bureau, it being the purpose to avoid Civ
ing publicity to anything whereby embar-
rassment might follow to the department
or the ends of justice be defeated.
THE sending of these dispa tches to the
central bureau is not intended to relieve
the stationkeepers in any way of making
the usual morning reports now returned to
headquarters at the end of every twenty
four hours
In sending messages stationkeepers shall
reduce the same to writing, SO that the
record made in each station house will cor
respond in every particular with the mes
sage received by the central bureau"
Police as Central Operators.
Policemen e. L. Phillips, William H.
Amiss and S. H. Murphy have been desig-
been serving at headquarters for some
time, and he was the first of the three
operators to go duty.
Twenty minutes after the system was
inaugurated, and No. had announced that
1t had no report TO make, the Georgetown
precinct sent a message that there was a
dead calf at No. 1913 @2d street. and at
the same time a message was received Civ
ing the information that Bud Reese had
been locked UP in South Washington for in
toxication.
Some of the Reports Received.
From the ninth precinct came a report of
the finding of a dead infant III a sewer near
Delaware avenue and M street northeast.
George Turner. who was employed to clean
the sewer. found the body and turned il
over to the police.
Among reports of minor Importance were
notices OF dangerous holes in sidewalks and
a fight il Smokers alley
CONDENSED LOCALS.