Police Procedural / Police Instructional films

[Mr. 'H']

... of the 30s/40s esp./early 50s.

[esp. LAPD]

I have been looking in vain for some time now for the above. I'm not talking about semi-documentaries like Dragnet that were for public consumption. I am talking about films that were made to instruct new recruits and detectives.

In L.A. Confidential, such a film is referenced to publicize Chief Parker's new, professional (and apolitical) Police Force. The clip shows several motorcycles coming out of the station house up a ramp (this may well have been a clip from a movie rather than from a real police film).

I have turned up some Coronet instructional films on drugs and "your local police" etc but this is not what I am looking for.

I have been looking for ages, can anyone help?

 

[Story]

Like this, right?

65.6 Motion Pictures (General)
1936, 1960-86
FBI film, You Can't Get Away With It, 1936 (3 reels).
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/065.html

and from

http://americasarchive.com/Law Enforcement.htm

Counterfeiting and its Suppresion. 1946 A general View on Counterfeiting. Covers currency from around the world. Various types of producing counterfeit money are explained from coin to paper money, including the various printing techniques, and paper types, numbering. Methods of detecting counterfeits. Various production schemes, from individual operations to distributed assembly. Also depicted are how the counterfeiters are eventually discovered and arrested. Produced by the International Criminal Police Commission. The original Name of Interpol Sound and B&W 53:09

What Is Money? 1947 Explanation of money as a convenient storehouse of value, and exchange medium, with a standard accepted value, for future payment. Follow along as a Five makes it's daily rounds. Sound, B&W 10:18

http://americasarchive.com/Law_Enforcement/Counterfeiting and Money Films on DVD Counterfeit.htm

And this is the one I referenced in the PM to you -
http://americasarchive.com/Law_Enfo...ice Procedure Training films on DVD Video.htm

 

[Diamondback]

Interesting, someone else looking for "procedurals". An old ex-cop I know was telling me about a series of training films featuring "Officer Smokey" that were around in the '70s-'80s, but he couldn't remember any more than that and that they were hilarious for their depiction of what not to do, and I haven't been able to find 'em around anywhere. Anybody here in LE been in the game long enough to know anything about these?

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