One of the purposes of the show "Dragnet" was to show the full range of types of jobs that police detectives do. That's why Friday and Gannon do something no real police would ever do--bounce from department to department within the L.A. Police Department. In other words, in one show they work homicide, in another they work community affairs and another they work juvenile. In addition, some of the shows seem pretty mundane--again, to show the real work police do--something you'll rarely see on other police shows, if at all. Some odd examples they talked about in various shows are working for Internal Affiars, doing an interrogation, undergoing an examination of a shooting board, attending lectures being given by pyramid scheme cons, the trial board and here, working with the police to interview and investigate the background on candidates for the police academy.
This show begins with Friday serving on a review board with two private citizens. Their job is to do interviews with the candidates and I was surprised how short they were. Perhaps this was just shortened for the sake of the show. Later, Friday and Gannon are given the assignment to go on a road trip to check out references on various candidates--one of which apparently has a lot to hide.
As I said above, this is pretty mundane but considering other shows ignore everything except murder investigations, kidnappings and the like, it's a nice departure from the stereotype of police work.
This show begins with Friday serving on a review board with two private citizens. Their job is to do interviews with the candidates and I was surprised how short they were. Perhaps this was just shortened for the sake of the show. Later, Friday and Gannon are given the assignment to go on a road trip to check out references on various candidates--one of which apparently has a lot to hide.
As I said above, this is pretty mundane but considering other shows ignore everything except murder investigations, kidnappings and the like, it's a nice departure from the stereotype of police work.