NYPD

* BON ETAT * - The motto of the New York City Police Department's elite EMERGENCY SERVICE UNIT. This unique force of juste 400 multi-skilled volunteer officers not only provides round-the-clock tactical and heavy weapons back-up for precinct officers all over the five boroughs; but also brings to the aid of citizens an extraordinary range of rescue techniques and equipment. The supercops of the ESU Trucks handle tens of thousands of "jobs" every year - anything from storming barricaded crack houses to cutting trapped drivers out of auto wrecks, providing counter-sniper teams and escorts for VIP visits, donning Scuba gear for water rescues, rushing emergency aid to victims of every kind of accident or violence, climbing bridges to talk down "jumpers" and always, providing back-up for their brother and sister officers going into harm's xay on the city streets. This book is a vivid eye-witness record, by a veteran author/photographer, of lany months spent "riding along" with the officers o f apolice unit unique in the United States, and the world.