The advocacy group has found placard substitutes to be as plentiful as fake Prada bags: patrol manuals, an M.T.A. vest, a firefighters' union card, a Bible with a note reading "Please Don't Ticket".
Of that, 24 workers swept up with hand brooms (manual litter patrol) and two others used backpack-style leaf blowers.
There are no specific guidelines in the Police Department's Patrol Guide, the thick manual that details police procedure, on when an officer can draw a weapon.
The department's patrol guide, its policy manual, says pepper spray should be used primarily to control a suspect who is resisting arrest, or for protection; it does allow for its use in "disorder control," but only by officers with special training.
The patrol guide, the department's manual, states that officers should not fire their weapons when, "in their professional judgment, doing so will unnecessarily endanger innocent persons".
Indeed, the use of handcuffs is mandated by the Patrol Guide, the department's policy manual.
The Patrol Guide, the department's policy manual, says that as a general rule, it is always best that officers be "fit for duty".
He had a partner, who picked the lock to a supervisor's office and got hold of the information manual for the microwave-detection system that patrolled a grassy no man's land between the prison and the road.
A manual distributed by the association repeatedly underscores the point: "Patrol members do not carry weapons".
A typical patrol would last two or three days and would involve the manual labour of hoisting a seaplane in and out of the water by means of a deck-mounted derrick.
