Excerpt from Police Communication Systems The ]abor of pioneering the way into a new field of inquiry would have been exceedingly difficult but for the ardent inter est and cooperation extended by a host of friends. The in Spiration and counsel of August Vollmer (formerly Chief of Police of Berkeley, California, and later Professor of Police Administration in the University of California), under whom I served as a police officer for eight years, were the prime factors in its inception and subsequent development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.