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Page 4 PHOENIX April 4,1974T r a i n i n g C o u r s e B e g i n s i n B r o o k l y n H e i g h t s :H a l f o f N e w A u x i l i a r y P o l i c eV o l u n t e e r s a r e W o m e nBY JOANN KISERCommunity minded women volunteering for the Heights auxiliary police seem to be taking on this duty with definite views and purposes. They may offer new approaches to police work.One half of the twenty-one new auxiliary police volunteers in the Heights are women: a ratio that undoubtedly can be accounted for in part by the fact that the recruiting officer for the 84th Precinct Auxiliary Police is a woman, Hope Garcia.Currently there are fifteen uniformed auxiliaries in this area; of those, only three are women. Most of the new recruits are young working women, Officer Garcia said. Some had shopped on Montague St. at the Minimax Hallmark Gallery, which she and her husband, Frank, own, and had gotten interested when they encountered her in her role of streetcorner recruiter. City-wide, about 20 percent of the auxiliary police are estimated to be women. The percentage of women auxiliaries in the Heights could easily reach about 30 percent within the next few months.All of the Heights%u2019 volunteers, along with eighteen people from surrounding areas, are now taking a ten-week training course with classes held on Monday evenings in the Holy Trinity Church Auditorium at 157 Montague St. The mini-station out of which those who complete the course will work%u2014a factor contributing to the large number of volunteers since auxiliary police workers previously had to sign in at the precinct%u2019s Gold St. station%u2014islocated in the church%u2019s vestibule.For a recent class the subject was fingerprinting. Taking over the session for Regular PolicePollock: 'Interestedafter being robbed.'Officer A1 Stover, who usually conducts the class, Auxiliary Police Inspector Bolen, an exportimport businessman who is also a fingerprinting expert, gave everyone a chance to sign in and then brought out his inkpad. Fingerprinting, he said, went back to the T%u2019ang dynasty in China when prints were used as seals on legal documents. The class looked properly astounded. They soon got a chance to try their own hand, literally speaking, on the inkpad.One set of smudged fingers: : w h e i g h t sU m P L A Y E R STHEATRE F0R CHILDREN TINKER TOMand theMAGICAL GRANNIESwW APRIL-6-71314-20-212:30 RM. - Reservations 237-2752 *26Willow PlaceDIRECTED BYJANE STANTONMUSIC BYAndi Stryker-RoddaBOOK & LYRICS BYHal LynchBethlehem Lutheran ChurchThird Avenue at Pacific Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.100th Anniversary FestivitiesO rg a n iza tio n a l Date, A p ril 15, 1874Easter Sunday, April 14-11:00 qjn.Pastor Jam es A G ra e fe , President,N ew Y ork M e tro p o lita n Synod, Preaching TRUMPETER CHOIRS SOLOISTSFriday, April 19, 8;00 pjm.Historical Presentation P articipating: Dr. A ke Sundelin, representative C hurch o f Sweden Consul G eneral G u n n a r Lonaeus Form er pastors, V isitin g pastorsREFRESHMENTS - FELLOWSHIPSgfuwiey, Apri 26, 7:30 pjn.Anniversary Banquet Ft.H am ilton O ffic e r's Club Senator , Hon. W illia m T. C onklin, SpeakerSunday, A p r! 21, 11:00 tu n .Confirmation Reunion Service Dr.Corl G.Fjellman,President, Upsala College, Speaker\L u ncheon ir, Church parlours - Fellow shipbelonged to Nancy Pollock, a weaver whose studio is in the Pollocks%u2019 apartment on Remsen St. She became interested in police work when, after being robbed, she talked to the officer who came in response to the Pollocks%u2019 call. %u201cHe was very human. My image of the police department changed a great deal.%u201d The officer told her about the auxiliary force and she decided to join, hoping to work in public relations, perhaps in the mobile recruiting units.Elizabeth Levine said she had just moved into the neighborhood in February and, seeing a recruiting poster for the auxiliaries, thought it looked like an interesting and useful way to get involved in community activities. A nurse, she works in the emergency room in the Brooklyn Hospital where she sees a lot of crime victims. She wants to work with people and would prefer to do patrol work and other outside community services rather than sit behind a desk. She said she was aware of the adverse publicity which police have received in recent years, felt that some of it was probably deserved, and that women might do something to mitigate the circumstances that call it forth, that %u201cwomen can communicate a lot better than men in certain situations.%u201d Hope Garcia, Recruiting Officer for Auxiliary PoliceJane Mindermann, also a nurse, at Veterans Hospital in Manhattan, lives on Columbia Heights. She had considered a police career before deciding to become a nurse. She would like to be assigned some indoor duties but also would like to patrol a %u201cbeat%u201d. Patrol assignments for women auxiliaries could conceivably become a staffing problem under the current practice of sending two men out with each woman, making it three to the beat rather than two.Fingerprinting, Inspector Bolen told his class, is rarely done by the auxiliary force, but they might be called upon in emergencies and most certainly would be in case of a %u201cnational emergency%u201d, when they would be required to fingerprint the seriously injured, the dead and, possibly, prisoners. He explained why a tablespoon is useful in fingerprinting a corpse. The recruits listened intently and asked questions.Although 40 people are enrolled in the class including those from other precincts, only twenty-five or so were there. Detective RobertFerrentino, who is Crime Prevention Officer for the 84th precinct, said that each person was allowed two cuts. Furthermore, he went on, if past experience were any guide, by no means all of the 40 would finish the course and go on to don a uniform. Detective Ferrentino has been serving as the group%u2019s coordinator but the unit is expanding and Police Officer Frank Kennedy is coming in as coordinator, to deal with the mounting adm inistrative work. Detective Ferrentino says that he will continue to work closely with' the volunteer group.He said they are very much interested now in recruiting housewives who can work behind the mini-station desk during the day. At present the station is often closed practically all day because there is no one available to man the desk. Essentially, he said, the desk serves as a public information center. Elderly people ask about social services and Medic-aid or report an incident in one of the hotels. People come by withOil Paintings/ Pastels March 30 April 11GLORIA FURMAN UZJ91 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn GALLERY 9I I PMFirst Unitarian ChurchPierrepont St. and Monroe PlacePalm SundayApril 7, 4 o'clock Service of drama%u201cCold Journey in the Dark%u201dA one act chancel play by Parke GodwinCharacters: Jesus of Nazareth Judas IscariotPublic W elcom e!questions on air pollution and the city%u2019s energy shortage, and are referred to other city agencies. ALevine.- 'Usefulway to get involved.'man who has had his fender banged will report the accident to the mini-station.%u201cIdeally,%u201d Detective Ferrentino said, %u201call citizens would share the responsibility for services and actions undertaken by their police. It%u2019s all to the good that some Heights citizens are learning something about what police responsibility entails.%u201dVolunteers who complete the coarse will have received briefings on such subjects as civilian arrests, courtroom procedures, how to search a person, how to use handcuffs, night sticks, walkie-%u25a0 Continued on Page 5LESLIETILLETT'q/L f^dwardianCcnfecticn *A SHOW OF PAINTINGS W ITH CARVINGS IN LOW R ELIEFApr 4%u2014Apr. 26, 1974Turs.-Sun. 2 :00-6:00 P.MNOVEMBER 7 0 HENHY S>!G A L L E R Y B r o o k l y n n y_ _ ia BtttHyt Htl^fcla . 12121 596-72%u2019 .