Comic Illustrated Police Training Publication
Daily Training Bulletin
Notes: The first two volumes of an illustrated training manual for LAPD officers, written by the department's Field Training Unit and issued under three chiefs of police, C. B. Horrall; W. A. Worton; and W. H. Parker. The bulletins, each a single sheet printed on both sides, often with a comic illustration by office Jack Dederick, covered basic procedures, best practices, and California law.
Among the topics cover are "how to fire the shotgun under field conditions", "how to determine intoxication", "how to handle called involving dead bodies", "how to testify effectively in court", "how to assist tourists", "how to handle mentally ill persons", and "how to recognize vice conditions--prostitution."
The LAPD was a leader in police education and the Charles C. Thomas company, a publisher of technical training materials, issued two books prepared from the Daily Training Bulletins. The format and arrangement of topics in the Thomas editions are significantly different from the originals. Four volumes of training bulletins were eventually published by the LAPD.
About 550 total pages. Apparently not in OCLC in this original format.
Edition + Condition: This set of the first two volumes is complete with all 173 issues of Volume I and the 84 issues of Volume II. These were bound in cloth covers from original single sheets, with the addition of tables of contents, indexes, and errata. This set was compiled by officer Romie Aaron Annis who has handwritten all the errata corrections on the appropriate issues and who noted relevant changes in the law into the late 1950s.
Most issues with Annis's name in pencil at the top; some issues post-hole punched at the top edge; fore-edges slightly trimmed in binding.
Publication: Los Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department, 1948–1950.
Item No: #361970
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