European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Tat and stripes feature Seo Tion Madrid police airmen and Spanish police work together on a aps in civvies Check credentials in one of the cites night patrol in Madrid air police from Torrejon a circulate through offer advice to visiting servicemen by Paul staff writer f youre an american our service is that How diet William Provost marshal of Torrejon air describes the night patrol in Sloan says that the night which circulates through the City of 15 Mil lion is designed As a Friend for whether there stationed Here or Are on it Tiit Madrid is now the Gar Den in Europe for military vacationers and were More and More leave personnel from France and we want visitors to have a Good we want them to consider Madrid the Best leave town in hut we also ask that they abide by a couple of common Ruos our main problem Here is Many leave personnel realize that civilian attire must be worn that Means tie and we spent six months at the Spanish language school of the foreign service Institute in Washington before coming to Spain in said that the 19 members of the patrol Are hand picked most of them either speak Spanish or have a working knowledge of the language key Man in the 3970th air police squadrons night patrol is s sgt William a 14year Veteran of air police and investigative what makes the Sloan Eddy team distinctive is that they put into practice the idea about being friends with among the Rogu Hir services of the Only military Agency in Madrid yith transportation at night Are delivering messages to military person Nel in the City a Large proportion of officers and airmen do not have telephones in their contacting personnel about alerts once again due to the limited number of personnel with notifying personnel about flights from Torrejon air transporting sick personnel to Torre september 1958 Jon air base Hospital about 15 Miles from driving expectant mothers to the Torre Jon assisting personnel assigned to Madrid and leave personnel if picked up by Spanish assisting american military personnel and dependents involved in Auto accidents As far North As the French Border and As far South As generally Sloan our people Are pretty Well behaved in even with the there has been with leave we have a Low in Tikot the night patrol on weeknights is usually a routine weekend the Tempo is a bit More the a stars and str prs representative recently Rode with Peddy and 1c Phillip la Bargeon a night they left the air Force operated hotel where the patrol maintains its at 10 pm in a unmarked air Force they were dressed in civilian from 10 pm to 7 they circulate through the logging 80 to 100 Miles a two other airmen and a Spanish National remain at the office to handle Emer gency another Sedan is parked out Side the office Peddy and Labarge Telephone the office every half hour for a routine Check and give their itinerary for the next half the crucial Peddy is be town Midnight and 1 theres a 1 am curfew in Madrid for the lower four enlisted Ilie Captain our Prott Lorn is mostly by leave Only one out of 10 gis we Tell about the dress regulations gives us any we try to he patient with a fellow that Doest want to believe were air because after its natural for an Ameri can to be during the an air policeman is on duty at the hotel to assist if you need help in Call the town patrol at 369400 and ask for Exten Sion the stars and stripes s sgt William c Peddy Feddy chats with Jose chief inspector Madrid u