Crime Desk: Patrol (3/3)

Pipes and ladders can be climbed when necessary to inspect a site on a case.

Make good use of that flashlight when investigating crime scenes at night. Vital clues may lay hidden in the dark.

Phelps and Dunn patrol the area on a bright Los Angeles afternoon.

When on patrol, always be at the ready for emergency report calls.

Trying to determine whether a handgun can be traced back to this gunshop owner’s store.

Crime Desk: Patrol (2/3)

Homicide detectives Floyd Rose and Rusty Galloway ask the reporting patrolmen to help inspect the scene of the crime.

Danger lurks outside and inside Westlake Savings & Loans.

You will need to be a crack shot with that service issue pump shotgun.

In the case “Armed & Dangerous”, the bank robbery gunman refuse to go quietly.

Phelp’s patrol partner, rookie Officer Ralph Dunn.

Crime Desk: Patrol (1/3)

Starting out as an LAPD officer means following in the footsteps of so many lawmen before you - literally. Walking the beat and cruising your precinct's area as an officer on patrol is both how you pay your dues in the police department as well as a time-honored means of honing your skills and intuition to protect and serve. Before you can move up from a uniformed policeman to the suited attire of a crime desk detective working cases, you will have to prove your worth to the higher-ups on the force with some stellar policework on patrol.

As Cole Phelps, working alongside your partner Officer Ralph Dunn, you'll soon find that a day on patrol in 1947 Los Angeles is anything but routine. Be prepared for anything, and ready to spring into action when those calls come in.

Two of the crimes you'll face while working in uniform include a violent incident of armed robbery and a gunshot victim homicide.

Interviewing a shop keeper about a brutal murder that happened on his store’s block.

When a killing happens in broad daylight outside a shoe store, is there anything the salesgirl inside knows that may help?

Trying to take down the violent armed robbers inside the bank.

With the bandits outside taken care of, Phelps and Dunn prepare to enter the bank, guns in hand.