Transcript
Captain Vincent P. Cronin (0:06)
21st Street. Sergeant Waters. He somewhat. You smell what? Gas. Where is this B70 watt?
William Campton (0:19)
On what floor?
Captain Vincent P. Cronin (0:21)
You are in the muster room at the 21st Precinct. The nerve 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. You'll have assistance right away. Yes, sir, right away. No, just stay where you are. The officers will be right there.
Narrator (0:44)
21st Precinct. It's just lines on a map of the City of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the 9/10 of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the east river wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. 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 Precinct.
Captain Vincent P. Cronin (1:06)
The 21st. 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants and four lieutenants, of whom I'm the boss. My name is Cronin, Vincent P. Cronin. I am Captain in Command of the 21st Precinct. I was doing day duty 8am to 6pm immediately after I turned out the platoon, I went down to the 6th Division office at the 17th Precinct, 163 East 51st street, where Inspector McBride had called a conference of all precinct commanders in the division in connection with the enforcement of certain new regulations of the State Liquor Authority. After the conference, I got into sector car number two, Patrolman Daniel McAdo, operator, and we started back uptown toward the station house where the paperwork had piled up because of my days off. When we got within the boundaries of the Precinct, I instructed McArdo to go uptown on First Avenue so that I could check on some complaints that some new construction was unduly blocking traffic. And I had a lot of trick questions, Captain. You know, that could be answered logically either way, on the true and false, especially like an automobile accident occurring in a public garage and resulting in personal injury shall be recorded as a vehicular accident. Impersonated. Why'd you put down for that? Because it didn't happen on the street. Only if it happens on the street between building lines, is it recorded as a vehicular accident. Otherwise, it's grade 80 case. That's right. How do you think you made out, Ricardo? Well, pretty good, I think. Captain. I can tell you more when the answers come out. I'm sure glad it's over, though. All that studying's rough. Yeah. Yeah, it takes a lot of studying. That's the biggest jump patrolman of the sergeant. There's lots of competition. Why don't I know it? Do you know how many wrote the examination? Over 7,000. Gotta be some lizard. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they'll have to make a lot of sergeants with all those men coming into the job. Justin, if I'm in the first three or 400, I figure I ought to get married within a couple of years. My wife was helping me with the studying. She knows the rules in the manual as well as I do. She can recite articles section and paragraph. Mine was the same way. I told her she ought to write the examination. This is gonna be close. Ye a gas emergency service. What he say? A gas case. Okay, let's make a run. Yes, sir. Ricardo turned east on the next straight to avoid traffic and went up York Avenue 76. When we pull into the block, I could see technicon number one with arman job. So was the car. There was no sign yet of either the ambulance or the ESC car. 618 was a five story tenement building. Few passerbys and neighbors were b beginning to gather on the sidewalk by cold wind. There's a spot for pulling the cardo. Yes, let's go. Right with you, Captain. That's either ESC or the ambulance coming now. Yeah. Keep the sidewalk clean. Micado, keep him off the stove. That's her. All right, folks, let's get through here. You, come on. Let's get back off this tool. Amocado. Yes, sir. Keep the people away from those doorbells. Okay, captain. Now look, I told you to get off the. Dr. Waters. Captain. Clothing. Sergeant. Get back.