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have Central Complaint Room
heart of the new system-in full
operation in so to 80 days.
: Truscott Assigned to Job.
@Chief of Detectives Floyd Trus~
colt has been assigned to take
charge of the work of setting up a
Central Complaint Room, complete
with supervisory officers, complaint
clerks, teletype and telephone opera
tors and radio dispatchers.
Maj. Barrett said his first move,
after the Commissioners approve
his recommendations, will be to
change the reporting system SO
that all complaints will flow through
central point and all reports on
offenses will come direct to that
point.
As soon thereafter as possible,
the radio dispatchers now operating
from the Tenth Precinct will be
moved to the central bureau.
Mai. Barrett said the proposed
new system will eliminate two steps
through which trouble calls from
citizens now 60. At present, when
a citizen wants police, he calls head
quarters and then is shifted to the
Nprecinct where the offense occurred.
sThereafter, the precinct calls the
radio dispatcher.
Under the new system, the call
will be taken at headquarters and
the radio dispatcher will be on the
spot to dispatch scout cars to the
scene.
Hopes to Promote Five.
Maj. Barrett said he would not
need additional funds Immediately
to put his proposed reorganization
in effect. He hopes to promote five
men, however, to supervise the
new setup and would have to go
to Congress for funds to make the
appointments permanent.
The supervisors would include a
captain, two lieutenants and two
sergeants. Maj. Barrett said the
promotions would be made from the
top of the Civil Service list but he
added he will search the entire de-
partment for the men best suited
to this work, using some of the
promoted men to fill their posts.
Once crime reporting and COM
munications have been centralized,
Mai. Barrett said, the next job will
involve setting up master index
of offenders. This work, he said,
will require the services of Is tenn
porary employees.
AS far as permanent extra help
is concerned, however, Maj. Bar
rett said he did not believe he would
need many more men. He ex-
planned that men in other squads
who have been handling crime re-
ports and records can be switched
to the Central Bureau and tele-
typists, dispatchers and telephone
operators can move from one job
to another in line with the demands
OF the work.
! Would Relieve Precinct Men.
After the central crime reporting
setup Is completed, Maj. Barrett
said, two men now assigned tc
keeping up crime reports in each
precinct can be relieved. These
men are now making daily tallies or
special forms designed to break
down crime statistics sufficiently t.
enable the Statistical Bureau tt
make reports conforming to Fed
eral Bureau of Investigating uni
form crime reporting procedure.
Maj. Barrett explained that TIT
difference in the methods OF com
putting crimes between the FB1 ant
the District were illustrated by thu
variation in the record of offense
here from January through Jun'
as computed by the FBI and thu
Statistical Bureau. The comparative
figures were carried in Maj. Barrett
report to Commissioner Young.
Mai. Barrett said the FBI in
Guided intent to commit Grim
and attempts in its crime figures
that it included pocketbook snatch
ings, film fam and pickpocket case
where no force was used in its lar
ceny figures; that 1t reported al
aggravated assault" cases regard