21st Precinct · May 12, 1954 · 27 min · 2,373 words
The transcript of “The Dollar”, an episode of 21st Precinct first broadcast May 12, 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 place in charge of water. Oh, well, you need emergency squad. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Oh, what's the trouble there? Glot behind the what? Yeah? Yeah? You're in the much room at the 21st place thing.
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 Precinct. All right. I'll notify the communications bureau.
Yeah, that's right. There's got to be notified before the truck enrolls. Twenty-first Precinct. It's just lines on the map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people went into the 9th tenths of the square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River.
Wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their homes, their persons and their property, is the job of the men of the 21st Precise.
The 21st, to 160 patrolman, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom I am the boss. My name is Kenelli, Frank Kenelli. I'm Captain in command of the 21st. I was working my day tour, 8am to 6pm.
After I had turned out the platoon, I read reports from signed communications for approximately one hour, until sector car number three came by the house to take me on patrol. At 9.25 am we were driving downtown on Fifth Avenue, and as we turned east into 72nd Street, a signal 30 ambulance responding was broadcast over the radio.
As for signal 30 denotes an armed felony, I instructed the operator, Potomond Meister, to make the run up the east side to Lower Hollum. When we hit the block, I saw that two sector cars on the Sergeant's Tower on the John.
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