Monday, May 7, 2012

Call Box History


For DC residents, the skeletons of police call boxes are a familiar sight.  But how many of us know their history?  Or how police actually used them?

In an age before cell phones or reliable radios, these boxes were a patrolman's direct link to the station.  In the video below, Sgt. Nicholas Breul, Historian for the DC Metropolitan Police Department, gives an excellent presentation on police call box history:

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