Intertel; Law and Order: A Study of Police in Four Countries
- Transcript
meaning in most western countries people have mixed feelings about the police and the power that they will what the policeman themselves think about a subject in this programme police officers from four countries australia canada britain and the united states say how they see themselves they were and their role in society yes but the big passenger liners pass under the sydney harbor bridge to get
him on the thousands of migrants is the place where they first set foot on australian so a place of lentils and a place of departures heroics twenty by twenty years a policeman in the new south wales for us rank sergeant third class duties were telling him on small reason streets he's changed the landscape of the industrial age copy faithfully from the european original arab anywhere we might expect the civil tomorrow with us to build a society to love this bill only if the police walk alone unloved perhaps on the list people here live
their own lives in anonymous rows of terrorist houses on involved with police crime is mostly minor police duties routine farmers say this summer's soccer your copy the police know the people and the people know them but by and large they give the laura wired that in its offices and the grudging approval thefts and i think that you know i live a healthier for a body if you listen there for days simply because what offensive as the injustice is not living population it coming in of the diet on any problem that the red deer from that saw business we get a lot of extra travelers from the bites this week
neil speaks to piano pieces thirty five year old third generation canadian high school graduate a father of three boys fifteen years on the hamilton city police force when he isn't policing streets back alleys people and
buck edit writes and draws cartoons for the department's newsletter next year he liked to act in an interplay is close friends call him darryl most others call him bob the report this is big i
began to participate in canada that are probably quite a hero of the working men how to describe people stopping by local press box is a lot where the lunchbox it's a working man's ground moves because it looks easy city this way in fifty years you leave do three junes wu who wants to do is be and a lot of canadians have primaries struggle is with a semi traditional canadian identity provision and muscular american has been involved in over forty ninth parallel the residue of what he is and what he wants to be is a kind of proud neutrality
tweaks nineteenth century victorian isn't and twentieth century reality is it it is seasonal twenty one constable james doggie
twenty three m married john dean is one of three hundred and fifty policeman in the book and had faults the shipyards and blocks of brooklyn had provide work for many of its one hundred and forty thousand people like liverpool which lies just across the river mostly broken head has to deal with the kinds of crime will find in any port in broken head the police are successful in solving two out of every five crimes have changed so they were just having a lot of these stolen vehicle charlie golf and ninety eight in a bottle and often eleven
her back on the growing number of calls still and you get people who were restraining take different engines out an alter all sorts of different number plates on the cars actions if you see them or some of it at the city ms black population of produce twenty percent
only six percent of the police force is black david walker is one of the fourteen hundred black members of new york's finest his goal has always been to be a cop now a veteran of two years on the force is the biggest central harlem community bursting at the seams with the new sets of black awareness as a black cop david walker's allegiance to this ideal is constantly under question he's been through this big to be back in uniform it's
bleak ha ha ha ha and it's basically an education for me wish a lifelong very close to life and we're saying all phase of life think of fall sink or if i see death and i think for me in that slow function and i'm feeling like my own life and being of a certain community in los angeles unfortunately sports black twelve fourteen percent of the population
elements of the black community considered the black out to be even more aggressive than his white counterpart ben carson daly is one of two hundred black policemen on the los angeles force a veteran of twenty years off severely prepares for michael in the wilshire section of los angeles today throws the police ministry between the two most important i mean in almost forty years of experience i mean my training at the us in every instance
it's b the powers are quite empty and i don't feel that way because our work through the views of the person actually become emotionally involved in a situation where my aunt towards me it
has been living on the edge of city sometimes involves city where and zach day brings reinforcements in town for the annual parade of veterans from the wars australia's top australian and moments of violence that anyone's civil rebellion five minute proportions about recounts the rest of australia stories in tow and afterward cycling commentator laura nor with any pockets of medium apparently there's no challenge to society racially still am a genius with tensions still though this is a rare precious society by comparison with pain such cases this no or jeers to keep asian only a
little harmless more great a gambling game that reminds australians what splendid reckless villars les one's wearing a like a thanks dave our report on that audition and say that i particularly there's a certain relaxation of the law and that it got the puzzles that was part of an active in or nothing like that line throughout the body of those the criminal element doesn't get into these guys are in the system i didn't say it but it does but over this that the eyes and what i think a
lot of advertising right now by two our primal advice such as this sort of the well that i lost that long and it was so funny very good full versions of bob wills until
his own middle your sense is on innovation law will remain well oh well you have also culpable and job will soon questionable of the business is local say a
lot will and this lady's garden down in price and in all his old wallace test them and then you know we get the main trunk is good news rod and seven art you got
a salt something to just talk about it but just by the all wise there's this constant attention by surprise the biggest problem the place of god and not just the place still solidly in libya's to solve this landslide traffic on review article that is this enormous lot on the rides as billy you the
political thing hey will dale you're going to get there
now i will yell out a nightmare up sand grain down well below the law not on the jews that analog you make it you have to describe amount of alcohol a new blood supply with this city is concerned and our battery lawyer to have been made of him on playstation four right for a group of houses he's sorting out of trouble is the routine of a nudge do with the nature of the trouble is unpredictable the charges missing from her a mother he lost soul is sluicing
hill told often is the initial visits home and you will go and they'll vote renee montagne host it's bad enough how about a
place to hide so in the old blue eyes wearing a brown and white pull over royal blue short trousers gray socks and black clamshells last seen about seven thirty tonight outside his home the reasons one of the drivers of some coverage on wednesday the environment then leaned on an on duty to a degree that they are forced to withdraw into themselves and seek their own enjoyment their own pleasures within the
department and to make only with other we think a lot about george mr glover yeah at five hundred and i worked for the hundred and sixty one fifty forty or so it's really ridiculous when you think of in terms of the counseling by comparison to last year by three thousand more for the regular people a slightly jokey to surround a group and we do it by just wander around aimlessly on the windows john lloyd wright julie mccarthy how many yard of your own time afterward you spend in court
that i'm going to fight you know about why go from here the more the singers like oh you know about price and a serious political and more you know to what was often the road to outside that matters chairing as you are fully like the victims had a good time around any thing and i'll follow a couch a law that will turn out of that one i get a lot of the body just doesn't carry a big city you go to church regularly how often you should hear the financing italy's so mc gains in nearby world come into the station on a lot of them were taken on work persecuting women here maybe having your mind theater every one of them with the idea that
they had been waiting out with a right i believe this is going to get the government to be mad you walk up to them and i know many many of the turnout activity is a miami <unk> three or four or well you're coming at fifty one of the un and i just went straight line often said were you were using the city around we pass by the city's buildings down and neon they're referring to town a few people read having ago was absolutely mad i went down the mothership top of the completely this is moving so fast and
mushrooms and shelves and i would be very nasty than if a home without french policeman broken head isaacs murders and its fines last year police killed with more humbled by this was one of the better position mm
hmm a london man to drink and he wouldn't leave the home and he was told the money licensing want todo you want it more drink of course we wouldn't give it
to the citizens go around the gulf is my view of what will eventually be gotten outside oh great was that helpful to the door you too i'm frightened and a few days later now
he's been
staying both and live life and property right but i'm not going to put myself in the position of the judge jury and executioner instead if i shoot bethel for stealing a tv or a case of beer why should i shoot
him we know the challenge court and get the maximum sentence will be about two years a selection of your ticket and executing in the center of our mind isn't alone i feel i'm feeling it's it's hard to explain but it's like getting a monkey and that they feel that because you're black working in the black community you should be on the funds you should be the front runner suppression crime controlling situation they're looking through i feel i'm looking at me all the time looking at how an uncertain situation i feel it is for me he's
been doing our crowd with fortified like tunes for the system like today which i think is unfortunate a lot about the system that should be changed changed it should be very unfortunate and that position and make these changes if i can help them and change the system so the
decision to do so oh you feel help of people in some way anything i can help other people it's beautiful in a really long as you don't do it deputy inspector office the commander of the twenty eighth precinct in harlem and one of the highest ranking black men over your force discusses the black offices and i'm alive and awe also special forces and in the end and identify with and iii as and this is change all rhyme minister in law ali that's right paul
is consider responsible for the white and in many ways they seemed some jews this is by the fbi those in the middle i'm going to keep trying mine the navy
maybe that's because you're here you have a bad day why are you ready
he's big it's everywhere
officials may be terrible lyrics sung in a comment lively didn't want the department to support people with long hair and beards throw them out of the park with robby benson the partially probably one else there was twenty one why are you the juveniles in the city seem to be the one that can be forgotten in
city planning and so i can say that it seems to me true i've talked to so many of the kids was walking the beat going to care for them in the marketplace they're going to get a world away for the article about the more than anything now is south la so long so long quite a lot of problems with flights minor incidents really we just have to to react upon the situation as it stands we get things a competitive requires what about what's possible and if necessary to spend to turn everybody out not to be and the measure of a moat away quietly in the trouble just doesn't flow again this what we call the fog
he's been involved in right we'll have all of that if you wanted to throw a really
people before i have to forget it all and casual animal in the garden only going to go it was probably going to be it's got to be in one they're i'm going oh
i'm not frightened of people that really underestimate and georgia was when people move to go on the piece as bizarre here the protest movement moves daily the crawl pledges
against the police there have been these protesters against police violence of the previous demonstrations to protest more genteel women's game it really really is sometimes these guys know what what the bank and so many people with their back line of people point to a policeman could have control that demonstration and yet i wonder what brought out this doesn't say that the individual policemen of the brutal and i'd be individual policemen a little more brutal than the average person and it individual policemen
i got it the individual police but the police but it's not up to give students because that students it's about to get students because they get to oppose the government's policy with respect to conscription and with respect to vietnam thank you race that's
right there is and admittedly this happens of course the police simply because the very fact i have tourette's label in certain situations and i believe i was a very aggressive defense lawyer brand of things with this dog leash hanging out of a tight tight and aggressive of all the publicity in arresting someone who is a lot on the ground you can do this constantly and we have to exert a set of metaphors to lift the human body and all these things are going to change these
data anyway the satisfaction of the powers and audit of a firm believer in public opinion is why politicians are saying nothing wrong with this sort of thing at all in fact i think it's healthy in many respects chris suing say three years or drunken drivers and forcing warlord or a policeman's duties really win popular brew one reason many find any satisfaction in their jobs
and if they're not entirely happy with a lot perhaps it's because they take more responsibility for less pay and most of its clinics why worry quarter panels insulation because after all we are only an expression of the will of the plate that you're only carrying out the entire city by the bible through parliament and almost silently unpleasant things we did a dike and the chinese through the will of the people in power the next year he signed laws that we enforce the last year are no longer laws of the war robert if i have a new rule over again that year that i would be a policeman of my cereal of my three boys will be all i do know
that were in what you might call limited success feel bad regime and i'm pretty well limited to a set salary and a second way of life might sound like serial will realize that they're for mccain a brother who's a lawyer virtually unlimited and myself from a monetary value and also promote freedom of movement within the public i am limited i cannot go to a hotel for which you are not a bear but i cannot go through certain areas of the city that are going on tv of the center and in the public eye well i'm on duty or off before no way in the world of the american people who actually local police discover it's well kind of
semi an alibi and all things might happen again units in his big three we got a lot of it's been one two three
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- Series
- Intertel
- Producing Organization
- Intertel (Firm)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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- Description
- Episode Description
- 1 hour piece, produced by Intertel and initially distributed by NET in 1970. It was originally shot in color.
- Episode Description
- Intertel: Law and Order: a Study of Police in Four Countries is a public affairs documentary that focuses on five law enforcement officers in four English speaking countries to find out how (policemen) see themselves, their work, and their role in society. The film was produced in 1970 by Intertel, a union between the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and National Educational Television (NET). Intertel cameras follow these five policemen on their beats in the United States (New York City and Los Angeles), England (Birkenhead, a town across the Mersey River from Liverpool), Canada (Hamilton, Ontario) and Australia (a waterfront district near Sydney). The patrolmen are also interviewed at length during their off-hours. What emerges is a strikingly similar portrait of the working cop that transcends national boundaries. As a rule, the policeman's role is an unpopular one and his work is misunderstood. His individuality is ignored by the stereotype-vision of the general public ("Everyone has a weird idea about policemen," says one Canadian officer) and every cop has to answer for every other cop's actions. He is underpaid, limited in career choices, constantly subjected to danger and always on call. Because of the special nature of his profession, he tends to socialize with fellow officers and becomes isolated from his employer: the public. In a series of scenes from the four countries, "Intertel Law and Order" presents a mosaic of police life. In Australia, we watch the officers as they listen to a street demonstration called to protest police violence. In Canada, a group of longhairs aggressively questions a friendly patrolman about the harassment they've suffered at the hands of other cops. In England, a young constable almost apologizes for the way he handled a violent drunk in the most frightening encounter of his career: "If it's a case of him going in the gutter, or me going in the gutter, it's preferably going to be him. It's got to be him." And in Los Angeles and New York City, the frustrating plight of the black cop is examined. Caught between the demands of his people and the duties of his job, the black patrolman is a particularly abused figure who is, at times, hated and victimized because of his role in the community. "Intertel Law and Order" offers slices from the unpredictable spectrum of a policeman's life: the banality of a traffic assignment tot eh sudden terror of facing an angry mob. "If (policemen) are unhappy with their lot," the documentary concludes, it might be because "they take more responsibility for less pay" than do most other people. "They're not popular, by and large, but they do like their work." "Intertel Law and Order: A Study of Police in Four Countries" is a 1970 production of Intertel. Executive producer: Colin Dean. Associate producer: Neil Edwards. Producer: John Crew. Film editor: Peter Vile. Director of the British segment: Julian Jaocottet. Producer of the Canadian segment: Patrick Gossage. Producer/director of the US segments: Kent Garrett. Reporter for the Australian segment: Keith Adam. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- Intertel, a dramatic breakthrough in the dissemination of ideas and cultural exchange through television, was conceived in November 1960. Five television broadcasters in the four major English-speaking nations joined to form the International Television Federation, to be known as Intertel, the first such international organization. The participants were Associated Rediffusion, Ltd. of Great Britain, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and for the United States, the National Educational Television and Radio Center and the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Intertel produced on a bi-monthly basis hour-long documentaries on important world topics, inaugurating a global television production agency dedicated to the creation of programs of substance and meaning. John F. White, President of NET, called Intertel "more than a fusion of the creative talents of the organizations involved in producing television programs of outstanding merit. It is a step forward to world understanding," he added. "I believe that the exchange of documentaries, while of great significance in the vastness of the mutual understanding in it can foster, is but the first step in a regular exchange of all forms of programming." Donald H. McGannon, President of WBC, hailed the new organization as "a pool of the technical and creative ability and knowledge of all the groups which will extend the international horizons of television in all aspects. This is the first practical step, after years of talking and hoping, toward the creation and use of international television for cultural exchange and an effective weapon for peace." By having observers examine topics far removed from their everyday assignments, Intertel gives viewers a fresh viewpoint. The founder members indicated that by dubbing these programs in foreign languages and making them available to all nations, they hoped television companies in Europe, Asia and South America will eventually join this unique project. The supervisory committee for the United States programming segments consists of Mr. McGannon and Mr. White; Richard M. Pack, WBC Vice President - Programming; and Robert Hudson, NET Vice President for Programming. Intertel came into formal being November 14, 1960, in a special meeting in Vancouver, B.C., and the culmination of plans for such an association which has been under way for a long time. John McMilliam of Associate Rediffusion, was named contemporary Coordinating Officer at that time. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1970-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:56:40
- Credits
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Associate Producer: Edwards, Neil
Director: Garrett, Kent
Director: Jaocottet, Julian
Executive Producer: Dean, Colin
Film Editor: Vile, Peter
Producer: Garrett, Kent
Producer: Crew, John
Producer: Gossage, Patrick
Producing Organization: Intertel (Firm)
Reporter: Adam, Keith
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Library of Congress
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Format: 2 inch videotape
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Duration: 1:00:00
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2437149-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2437149-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
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- Chicago: “Intertel; Law and Order: A Study of Police in Four Countries,” 1970-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 4, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3t9d50gr56.
- MLA: “Intertel; Law and Order: A Study of Police in Four Countries.” 1970-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 4, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3t9d50gr56>.
- APA: Intertel; Law and Order: A Study of Police in Four Countries. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-3t9d50gr56