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The Pair

21st Precinct · July 30, 1955 · 27 min · 3,652 words

The transcript of “The Pair”, an episode of 21st Precinct first broadcast July 30, 1955. 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 Sergeant Waters. Yeah, call him. How many prisoners he got there? Yeah? Yeah? What is it? Inside the bar there? Yeah? Yeah? You are on by transcription in the must-a-roma 21st place.

I was on the 23st thing, the Nodes, some of it. Our 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- for them after twenty-first policing alright i'll turn it on yeah right away and then come on in

twenty-first precinct it's just lined on the map of the city of new york most of the one hundred seventy three thousand people away into the nine tenths of the square mile between just avenue of the east river wouldn't know if you asked them to pay a live they'll work in the twenty-first 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, 160 patrolman, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants at whom I'm the boss. My name is Canelli, Frank Canelli.

I'm captain in command of the 21st. I was working my night tour at 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. It was raining hard when I came on the job, and the 62 men of the four to 12 platform wore their black rubber raincoats and cap covers at the turnout.

By 6 p.m. how I've ever rained had stopped. And when I went out for my meal, the skies were clear. At eight, I instructed Sergeant Waters on telephone switchboard duty to have a car come by the station house to take me on patrol.

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