# This Is Your Police Department

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: "this is your police department in review. These are the guardians of your city." Domestic disputes called "family trouble." "Joe had visions of being a hero, of defending some frail little woman whose husband was mistreating her. But in this case, Joe was told by a ruffled lady of the house to mind his own business. If she and her husband wanted to throw things at each other, that was their business."…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1951
- By: Handy (Jam) Organization
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0068ThisIsYourPoliceDepartment)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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