NCJ Number
77180
Editor(s)
R ForterPearsonScott G, M
Date Published
1973
Length
0 pages
Annotation
The film shows the work of the Montreal Urban Community Police Department, Montreal, Canada, during a 60-day period in 1973.
Abstract
The viewer follows the police officers in station house 10 as they investigate tips, help accident victims, perform traffic duty, and engage in other normal activities of their daily schedules. A main theme running through the film is that there are no easy solutions for the social problems with which the police have to contend daily. They help a sick, elderly man to get to a hospital for care, try to deal with a drunken woman who really prefers to stay on the street, help control onlookers during a fire and aid in the fire investigation, arrest a shoplifter, and come to the aid of a young girl who was gang-raped after being forcibly drugged. Viewers experience first-hand the search for robbers in an area of apartment buildings, which entails a search of every apartment in the area; see the street action during night patrol; and witness the effects of the drug culture on criminal activity (crime has increased). The film concludes with the funeral processing for a motorcycle police officer who was killed during a bank robbery.