This Is Your Police Department

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Operations and ceremonies of the Detroit Police Department.

Shotlist Film on Detroit Police officers in two-parts one on the annual Detroit Police Field Day; the other on the hiring and training of cops. Annual outdoor police rally

Battalions of police department members march, ride horses and motorcycles and otherwise parade past the camera's lens.

Stock shots:

Police marching bands. Close-order drills.

Track and field events. One division of policewomen seen.

Hiring and training of officers. Target practice. first aid classes. Cadets, in what appears to be their underwear, practice "commando" movements with rifles in a gymnasium.

Lie detector / polygraph.

Drunkometer / breathalyzer; ballistics test consisting of firing a gun into a box. School crossing; walking the beat. Helps little girl eating ice cream cone. Precinct map. Dispatchers. Police cars.

Police respond to holdup. Shots fired; bang bang. Cop shot.

Surprise shots: Plainclothes cops all wearing light-colored fedoras and suits march past. Real cops acting as clowns including a couple in drag. Tug-of-war

Voiceovers:

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Handy (Jam) Organization

Subtitles

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