&e,,(i.,w a‘f p &ty, `u#k, Betty Holmboe came from West Virginia to complete her masters degree in 1973. Since graduating from Penn State, she has been appointed to coordinate the "Developmental Year" reading program. She also teaches a continuing ed ucation course, designs courses and tutors people who need to bone up on their reading and writing skills. Holmboe enjoys decorating, dancing; athletics and driving her sports car in her spare-time. —by Chip Connelly STAR LITE Philly police use latest in computerized technology PHILADELPHIA (AP ) , The system (CAD) "will increase the ef- Philadelphia Police Department has fectiveness of the police department's undergone a $1.2 million renovation of its ability to respond to calls," Herron said computerized dispatching system, at a news conference Tuesday. giving it the latest technology in police When officers and civilians in the communications. police radio room become proficient in The system sorts calls to police in the new system, Herron said, they order of importance, automatically should be able to shave seconds off the locates the patrol car nearest the scene time it takes a police officer to respond and tells the dispatcher where to send to a call. the car all within a split second. Previously, a police operator jotted This can be done because the location down a caller's information on a card, of more than 76,000 blocks, 20,000 street and handed it to a dispatcher. He then intersections and 3,000 miscellaneous selected a patrol car to handle the call sites (such as hospitals and public and radioed the information to an officer buildings) have been programmed into on the street. the computer, said Chief Inspector Some officers reportedly have corn- James Herron. plained privately that the computer I • 011 0 '-• ' e• •'s e - tch ow he I! p. 'g of emergency c. Its an Frida The Daily Coll,
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