Mr. Sweeney is Benjy, a rookie policeman - the good guy - who goes undercover as part of a stolen-car ring run by Mr. Sheen as Ted - the bad guy.

He was stopped by a rookie policeman for driving with his brights on.

Two rookie policemen, Dave Greenberg and Rob Hantz, straight out of the NYPD police academy, want to do more than traffic control.

Although 36 years of age may be considered young for many jobs, it is generally considered to be too old for a rookie policeman.

At the age of 23, the author spent a year as a rookie policeman on the nine-man force in a small town on Cape Cod.

Wayne Robert Felde, who had pleaded with a jury to sentence him to death to keep him from killing again, was executed in the electric chair early today for the 1978 slaying of a rookie policeman.

The trial, which is expected to last a month, will be followed by one of two blacks who are accused in the shooting death of Henry C. Schaad, a 22-year-old white rookie policeman, also during the riots.

Vic explained the events outside a deserted lumber yard, that had taken the lives of a thug named Blackie and a rookie policeman.

Chief Hall noted that the narcotics division had added 180 people since the Feb. 26 slaying of a rookie policeman, Officer Edward Byrne, who was guarding the house of a witness in a drug case.

The gang leader, Jequ Ngcobo, whom the police described as a religious fanatic, was shot and wounded by an off-duty rookie policeman after his friend, a policewoman, was stabbed in the neck.