The Line-Up

Television got widely varying reactions last week from the nation's police. The score card:

P:In Tallahassee, the state road department ordered TV sets installed in each of Florida's convict road camps "to improve the morale of the prisoners."

P:In New York City, Police Commissioner Francis Adams announced plans for an experimental city-wide telecast of the daily police lineup. Eventually, TV sets will be placed in New York's 85 precinct stations so that almost all detectives will be able to attend the line-up without leaving their own commands.

P:In Spring Valley, N.Y., ex-Convict George Poper was arrested after winning $165 for his hard-luck story on TV's Strike It Rich. When a kinescope of the show was telecast in Austin, Texas, Poper was recognized as a fugitive from an indictment for embezzlement and theft.

P: In Albany, N.Y., a meeting of the State Association of Chiefs of Police condemned CBS-TV's Man Behind the Badge because "two male characters playing the roles of criminals were handsome, muscular individuals who would excite the admiration of any youngster," while the cop who caught them was fat, balding and well past middle age.

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