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The Visitors

21st Precinct · January 20, 1954 · 28 min · 3,193 words

The transcript of “The Visitors”, an episode of 21st Precinct first broadcast January 20, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). 21st Precinct plays 21st Precinct free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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25th-pracing Sergeant Waters. Where was the car parked? 60th-pracing, what? The door is locked. What kind of a car is it? You're in the must of room at the 21st-pracing. The nerve center. A call is coming through.

You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st-pracing. You'll come into this station now. We'll have to take a report on you.

It's between Lexington and 3rd. As long as you can. Lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the 9th tenths of the squeal into East River wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in it.

It was the job of the men of the 21st Precinct. The 21st, 160-per-colment, 11th-sargents, and 4th-resquentes of whom I am the boss. My name is Cannelli, Frank Cannelli. I'm Captain in command of the 21st, making my night tour 4 p.m. to 8 a.m.

At six after I had turned out to platoon, interviewed an applicant for a tow truck license and cleaned up considerable paperwork, I instructed Sergeant Waters on TS to have sector car number one come by the station house and take me on patrol of the precinct.

Patrol of the precinct by the commanding officer in addition to responding to emergency radio calls as they occur generally involves a personal check of conditions concerning which complaints from the public have been received. connection with the investigation of such a complaint. I instructed patrolman Colley, the operator of sector car number one, to drive to 88th

Street and Madison Avenue. At 7.20 p.m. we were in the car proceeding uptown on Park Avenue in the 70s. Extremely windy. When the landlord came to collect the rent, I asked him to be home.

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