Police Honor Men

It should be no surprise that the City of New York's radio station would have close ties to the city's police department. Through most of WNYC's history, at least until its independence in 1997 from city ownership, the station promoted various NYPD initiatives including decades of broadcasts from the department's Missing Persons and Safety Bureaus as well as the Police Athletic League shows (PAL), academy commencement ceremonies, and performances by the police band and glee club.  It should also be noted that WNYC was directly involved with the police department's communications apparatus used to apprehend criminals during the station's earliest years. For more on this, see WNYC and the NYPD: In Search of Criminals.

Police Honor Men was a weekly public relations effort on behalf of the NYPD to dramatize case files focusing on heroic incidents. The show, underwritten by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), premiered on October 2, 1937. According to newspaper radio listings, it appears that by 1938 the program was just airing over WHN. The write-up below was written for Spring 3100, the monthly magazine written and produced by the New York City Police Department. ((The magazine's name comes from the department's phone number when the magazine was first published in 1930, SPring7-3100). 

"Police Honor Men" from Spring 3100, November 1937, pgs. 24-25. 

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