take joe for example he came in as many of the recruits grew from a small town in michigan he was looking for a life that would give him the feeling of being worthwhile both to himself and to the community in which he w here at police headquarters joe and other applicants were tested for physical fitness and mental ability or an officer must be alert both physically and mentally his body and mind must be a  fireman investigated his background his school record his home environment his personal habits every effort is made to select the finest met joe along with other recruits was accepted and a cadet to the police academy for six weeks or more of study and lectures on departmental rules and regulations criminal rules of arrest traffic rules and court procedures you learn to use all types of firearms and spent many hours in target practice marksmanship might someday mean saving his own life and the lives of other people he learned the importance of first aid and the diagnosis of simple injury knowledge that often means the difference between life and death for an injured person command or practice good officers learn how a group of men working as one can be an effective wage between destructive mobs and the peaceful citizen and his property join with other cadets found our modern scientific crime detection speeds the work of every department the machine they're watching is a spectrograph one of the newest and most useful pieces of equipment in the laboratory on this machine any substance unknown origin such as a strand of hair or a piece of wire can be compared with any known substance and its identity establish the result is of tremendous importance in solving crimes and presenting court evidence some of the police academy work was fun like the day job volunteered to be a guinea pig for a polygraph or lie detector tests job thought he could fool the machine but when the machine showed he was lying just for fun of course he readily admitted that the  then came the great day when joel first put on his new uniform now a graduate of the police academy he was assigned on probation to a precinct station for six months it was no doubt in his mind that he would earn the right to wear that strange places let him behind the scenes to learn the as he took part in drunk ometer chats for example joe began to feel that he was a part even though it was small one of detroit's campaign to cut down on accidents and loss of lives caused by drunk driv he began to see the importance of prevention whenever possible prevention of accidents and prevention of crime joe found there are times when it's too late for prevention when a crime has already been committed then it is a belief the parents job to put together the pieces of the puzzle that make up a crime and using all the modern scientific police methods traced and prove the guilt of the person or persons responsible sometimes joe was sent out for duty at school property experienced officers of the police departments use your own work with the school teaching traffic laws send loads of courtesy to our use of the try to help them become useful citizens of tomorrow by taking part of the responsibility today little by little jolt learn the insights patience and tact a police officer needs to carry on his work he was learning fast each day before and after begin his tour of duty he is required to copy the information posted on the teletype for this review ensures plant action on missing persons stolen cars and persons wanted for investigation by the police department joe spent would want an important arrest and joe wasn't a hero but for the first time he felt as though he really was a police officer and somehow his uniform seemed to fit better the police department thought so too at the end of six months probation joe received a certificate confirming him as a patrolman not for the one arrest he made but because in his whole probation period he had proved himself to be alert willing to take orders and carry them out and firm but courteous in his contacts with the public as a patrolman joe began to understand the real significance of police work a steady work a day job hero there were plenty of other compensation of course there were dozens of times when he had to do things that weren't less like giving a ticket to someone parked willfully in a no parking zone but  it was all part of his job it was a long time in coming but he was finally assigned to a two way radio car eight eight it meant a great deal to a successful step in his career he met the man who was to be his partner and experienced patrolman from whom he could learn a great deal car eighty eight was a part of a carefully planned system devised for the patrolling of the city of detroit every hour of the day and night h system works the city of detroit is divided into police precinct each precinct is divided into scout car territory the number depending upon the size of the precinct and the amount of activity in two men who transmit orders to scout cars the radio dispatcher and the dispatch clerk are always veterans of many years experience in police work they must decide in a few seconds what course of action should be taken on a call they must know every minute what cars are available for a sign job seldom saw those men but their voices became a part of his life but in this case joe was told by a rough old lady in the house to mind his own business if she and her husband wonderful things at each other that was there a bit as the weeks went in emergencies like this all those months of training and experience begin to pay off joel reported by radio that the hold up men had been taken into custody but not before jones partner had been injured by gun west side security patrol and eight targets twenty one thirty six west forests and officer shots wagon on the way insurance risk he was thinking of his partner's family and of his own spend their lives giving to the city of detroit will be as generously extended to their own