Dragnet: Police Academy - Mario Koski

Here's another in NBC's Great Parade of New Shows. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. NBC brings you... ...tragnet. You're a detective sergeant.

You're assigned to robbery detail. An armed gang of blitz bandits has started to work in your city. Their pace is fast, four and five robberies each night. The criminals are not amateurs. They're well armed, dangerous.

Your job, get them. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law

law through an actual case from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Thursday, October 23rd, was Wendy in Los Angeles.

We were working at day watch out of robbery. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. My name's Friday. I was on my way back from the statistician's office, and it was 11.42 a.m. when I got to room 27A.

robbery detail how do you work out jonie good prospect i don't know how good they are but i got a handful of the good c fifteen eighteen twenty two that's all down on the stats office around on the i'd be informed there they are mmm to gain a three-man working on foot let's roberts they only take cash and always tie-ups

work from eight to ten at night one of the gang's tall the other two short and these are the men machine sorted out under that hitting you If our information's wrong, then so is the machine.