The Lender

25th-breaking Sergeant Waters. Yeah, that's right. Armed robbery in the 24th. Well, we don't know much about it here. We got the car, that's all. It was parked over there on 2nd Avenue. It was in the Alarm.

That's nice of them. You are in the much room at the 21st-breaking, 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 twenty-first precinct all right will hold it we've got twenty-first precinct

just lines of the map of the city of new york most of the one hundred seventy three thousand people wedged into the nine tenths of the square mile between pep avenue in the east river wouldn't know if you ask them that they lived or worked in the twenty-first whether they know it or not the security of their homes their persons in their

property is the job of the men of the twenty-first precinct The 21st, 160-per-colment 11-sargents and 4-lutellents of whom I'm the boss. My name is Canelli, Frank Canelli. I'm top-toning command of the 21st. I was working my night tour at 4 p.m. to 8 a.m.

Before midnight things were quiet in the precinct, and I had the opportunity to remain in my office and clean up much of the paperwork that had accumulated. After I turned out the 12-to-8 platoon at midnight, I instructed Lieutenant Gorman, the desk officer, to have a car come by the house to take me on patrol of the precinct. In compliance,

the communications bureau was requested to put out a radio call for sector car number three, which on receiving the broadcast stopped at the nearest police call box. The car's recorder, patrolman baccaro, was instructed to take over a foot patrol post, and the operator, patrolman's foul, drove the car to the station house to pick me up. During the course of my