European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Patrolling with the maps weekend payday Lime thi1 Raguc p Flics trouble time for Strong nerves for cops the nerve Center for cops the big cities have big that Why they have big police stations and Busy Frankfurt mis Are big City cops with a Busy the Frankfurt my station at Gibbs Cavern is a nervy place on a payday the patrols Are the sensors and reacting agents of a police the desk sergeant holds All the nerve endings of these agents in his the station personnel consist of men and women from the 709th my with Aid from the 61st my and the 503rd the train station is covered by the 570th i the Abrams building by the maps invariably claim their work is Noth ing to write but youre Welcome to sit m the station As Long As you want or to go out on any patrol you just dont use any photos of people we said Douglas John station commander of the 709th my since the increase of terrorist activity in Ger the men and women on my patrol Are loaded for weve Given them shotguns As additional Johnson the maps Are understaffed for the area they have to Johnson but they do manage to have a common patrol with the germans in the entertainment District of Sachsen Hauson on the weekends and even a fool patrol in some of the housing Clifford Griffith and Harvey Balcombe were the desk sergeants to guide me through the seeming confusion and chaos of the my Dull a Man comes into the station bouncing off the clearly moving to the tune of a different super zonked out on Mogen As the gis Call or Maddox and some an my a patrol saw him staggering up along the Kaiser Strasse erogenous zone Early in the we thought wed offer him a lift Back to Bis unit before he got we didst realize How wired the dude the according to the started throwing the maps around like hot it took three to get him in the car where they decided to bring him to station in in the car the go urinates without Benefit of toilet and attempts to drive his foot through the Back of the Drivers shaking up the in the station cell he practices a classic movie line at a in in Why dont you get out there and arrest the junkies barefooted be kicks the detention cell ban for about half an he wont feel it until Tomor a Cid agent and then hell say the pigs did it to Balcombe tells the patrol to get the mad dogged i to the Hospital and have his stomach i dont want him to choke to death on his vomit in the if tie let him do it in the shortly the wired go is Back in the Den Tention he was so violent that the doctor refused to get near an my escort the phone hardly stops ringing on payday weekends and theres a constant flow of reports on the radio be on Lookout for woman wandering through housing area Wilh Long she reportedly wants to commit other alarming reports flow from the but Only when the code word witness prefaces the reports is there any reaction in the Frankfurt Griffith is our code the other reports Are for outlying maps get briefed before they venture out into the volatile Frankfurt earlier in the it was Griffith they had two pot a couple of House hold disturbances and a patrol standby while the German police searched of Post when someone Calls the its the desk sergeant who decides what to if its a Well Send a patrol to locate it and get the if the Cid is they determine if the damage or loss is below their limit of present if it they turn the Case Over to Griffith an my enters the station and reports to the desk ser we picked up this i staggering on the he says to i shot up but youll never find it injection Hole because it takes two to shoot up got any Man the my said they  find where hed shot Chicago on the main All big cities have their crime problems and Frankfurt is no Frankfurt maps Are big City some Call the City of almost a million people Chicago on the main River because of its crime because americans part of Frankfurt maps have that much More to an important Factor of Street crime in Frankfurt is the drug the influx of drugs into Southern Germany is timed to coincide with american said senior detective Peter Loos of the Frank Furt the reason being that the go is an Ideal customer for a the i Doest belong to the permanent Community and the dealer will probably never be confronted with him in so on payday they Are ready we figure there Are Between and junkies in the Junkie we know is generally Between 22 and 16 years old and there paying about w for a snot about on tenth of a Gram of there is an in creasing number of women becoming weve Loos said the Trade was controlled mainly by jordanians and syrians with a smattering of of course there Are some civilian americans working the Market often there Eugis but Treyve Only got a Small part of the they find it easier to Deal Wilh their own people but they Haven got it monopolized by any we find gis Are on the consumer end of the they Seldom show up on the German scene As Amsterdam is still the big Loos police make continuous drug busts of people on that Loos said there was an increase of co Caine on the scene and said there May be tougher Federal Laws in the making As a re action to the increase in but that will Only drive up the Price and increase the drug related Loos to put it things Are getting worse Here were headed towards a problem of new York deaths from overdoses called a Golden shot in German Slang last statistics were 26 in 20 in 19 in lower 45 in the state of North Rhei Westphalia said this years grisly Harvest of Duad junkies will show a jump in the grim the German Magazine Der Spiegel said that the total number of German heroin and Page 14 the stars and stripes dirty identified by then from to drug authorities expel drug connected deaths i from 106 in Hera Germany and other w tries have skyrocketed Foj according to one gel Are about Fuerst Only one bed reserved people to undergo medic the City is just with the loot three gis sat in a f explaining their Perce military drug 2 nothing Breaks us i ing that a unit is one Man nodded in agreement for us its not a in woman we use Days id gue who smokes uses about theres any partying it you can score the but dealer and place the on a Man describing the in the the