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OK. Well as you know. For you. As you know just held a meeting with police commissioner Mr Murphy Mr O'Grady. Canal and Commissioner. Gilhooly three Commission is the transit authority and chief O'Rourke of the Transit Police also had and this Dr Theodore Langley director of personnel in the city and Budget Director Bill Scher. I don't say here that I'm determined and we all are meeting determined to say that we're going to have a law and order in this city of eyes and we agreed on a number of emergency moves. As far as the transit police concerned. The personnel director Transit Authority. Have agreed to expedite as rapidly as possible the. Checking of the examinations the physical exam the checks on the candidates who are on the list for the increase in the transit police force so he authorized in March. That during that training period. They will use part of that training period to ride with the. Older members of the transit police in the high has had areas. The Transit Police will also put them then on over time so that there will be an additional two hundred men available for duty. In that way on our subways and these men will be assigned to the so-called high hazard areas as far as the installation of the equipment which we approved some time ago so that there will be even greater communications on the subway system than exists now I think it's fair to say that there are is an elaborate communication system there and all the tracks six hundred within six hundred yards as being. The subway every six hundred fifty of them all of them and anybody else that's saying now that they saw the system will be improved so that they can be the use of walkie talkies and so forth for the police that will be expedited as rapidly as possible we haven't got the exact dates when the full installation can be made but it will be done just as soon as possible. Far as the police to pop and screen send the York City Police Department the man will go on over time and both of these actions will be taken within the next two days so that there will be an additional five hundred. More men out on the streets in all areas of the city for police protection. And they both The New York City police and the trance and police will ride back and forth from their homes to their assignments in uniform. Which should be a great help as a deterrent and they cause they'll be available they had to for any action that is necessary. That was a. Part of it's been a report from the Coney Island police precinct that on Sunday several hundred you were herded on the subway trains by the police and everything to get them out of the way and that was one of the actions which prompted the rowdiness on the trains on Sunday if you have any comment on that. Mr Mayor you know. What we know it's going to cost money and. We have to be. We'll have to find the money is important you know the budget director is not smiling in this point but and this is important for people and they will have to make it up in savings and along the line and. Run into a good deal of money if the American really reason to believe you were going to enough and. I don't believe there was any evidence and I discussions that the ones that took place over the weekend were part of any plot as I like. Is that correct the Russians and I don't know. When I. Said where then there they've both they over time in that. Order will be within the next two days. Well you will have to have five hundred more New York City police it will have to one hundred more trance of police and then within a short relatively short period of time when these men who are applicants for the increase in the transit police force. Begin their training to expediting as rapidly as possible so that they begin that training we hope in the Certainly by the first of July that will mean another. Two hundred more. The trainees are riding with the with the experience police so that five hundred nine hundred more. Or. Less. Well this is a matter that could be taken up between the police department or for that if it is necessary. This is that where there wasn't any discussion on that at this point because we have to use the police force to have protection in all parts of the city and I may say to where taking into I'm also. Aware of the. Question that a lot of people have that fear they have been riding some of the and the ferries protected Staten Island Ferry when you get entire get the commissioner in and they can. See that we put on some special police there for them if it's nice and they. Will release five. Young. Oh we understand that is not correct that is not correct it's not like. The story is that they didn't appear this is related to me by Judge Kelly that they did not appear before any judge but they were in the intake section of the family court and no final actions were taken I was one of. The not in custody now I thought. Right. There in the intake section of the family court no determination has been made by the family court as to whether they will appear before a judge or whether this is. Not familiar with the times of just of the whatever the cost of it and that's on the street. Yes the parents I understand were in with them this morning when they were in the custody of. This America the young ones who just sixteen or sixty sixty years to marry you can see here and about the current reporting and he white gang activity in the city what can you tell us and I've seen those reports and naturally when one sees the reports we're concerned about it and we want to do all we can to areas and the one who as we have in the past give full protection adequate protection to our people like to see that Lauren order is preserved the same time we have then and we'll continue as we have been to step up the tempo in working in the areas have better housing and job opportunities and education Mr Mann the civil rights leaders have said that. These activities of the new game against the light of result of the slowness in the desegregation process for you coming. Where we have tried to step it up and rapidly as possible a lot of these things can't be done overnight I think that. These youngsters all need some help and some training like their parents could do a lot to do give them a decent home life and more concerned with them I may say that we haven't just a Negro in Puerto Rican gangs we have some white gangs in this city to. Make a. Pretty.