Official Code Book, County of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. October 1959 revised edition, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (Los Angeles, California), 3 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches tall staples paperbound booklet, 21 pp. Moderate soiling, rubbing and creasing to covers. List of names and addresses in ink to rear cover. Otherwise, apart from a bit of creasing to a few pages, a very good copy – clean, bright and unmarked – of this scarce listing of radio codes. A rare mid-twentieth century artifact from the beginning of the administration of one of the longest-serving Los Angeles County sheriffs, Peter J. He is credited with modernizing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, turning the department into the sixth-largest police department, and the largest sheriff’s department, in the United States. Following a brief section on operating procedure, lists the official radio codes, from a 187 (murder) and a 207 (kidnapping) to a 999 (officer needs help urgently), numerically and alphabetically. The item “1959 Los Angeles County Sheriff Official Code Book Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess” is in sale since Tuesday, December 17, 2019. This item is in the category “Books\Nonfiction”. The seller is “flamingo_books” and is located in Temecula, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Topic: 20th Century
- Format: Paperback
- Title: Official Code Book, County of Los Angeles Sheriff
- Type: Manual
- Subjects: History & Military
- Publication Year: 1959
- Language: English
- Publisher: Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
- City: Los Angeles
