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Description: | Police boxes were kiosks topped by electric lights. Each one contained a telephone linked directly to the local police station. Officers on patrol could report their whereabouts from them without having to meet their sergeants at fixed points. The flashing light could indicate to the patrolling officer that he should make contact with the station, or show where assistance was required if the box had been used to report a local incident.
These and larger blue police boxes were used until portable radios were introduced into the force in the 1970s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | �� Henry Grant Collection/Museum of London | Subjects: | work Public services Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1953 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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