The Heirs

21st Precinct Sergeant Lyons. You caught a what? A bird graduating with a butcher knife? So where is it? Where? You are by transcription in the master room at the 21st Precinct, the nurse 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 lady out in the office is right over there yes ma'am right away just be careful to get there twenty-first precinct it's just lines on a map of the city of new york

most of the one hundred seventy three thousand people wedgant of the nine tenths of the square mile between this avenue of the east river wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked 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 twenty-first precinct

twenty-first 160 patrolman, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom I am the boss. My name is Cronan, Vincent P. Cronan. I am Captain and Command of the 21st Precinct. I was doing night duty, 4 p.m. to 8 a.m.

After I turned out to platoon for the night tour and cleaned up the paperwork that had accumulated since I was last on duty, 22 hours earlier, Secht de Con, number two, came by the house for me, and I went on patrol of the precinct with patrolman David Meister as operator.

When the commanding officer is on patrol in an RMT car, he assumes all the duties of the car's recorder, which includes signaling on the two-way radio and keeping the desk officer informed by telephone of all police actions taken by the crew of the car.