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POLICE SERGEANT FRANCEY LANG looked down the deserted
but brightly lit length of King Street Public Hall， approved the
way gay banners and poster-covered display stands hid grimy
walls and a cracked ceiling， and told himself he d done a good
iob.
It was ahnost midnight and even the hall caretaker had
given up， retiring to his cubby-hole of an office to brew an-
other pot of tea. But tomorrow at ten a.m. the Proiect Com-
munity exhibition would come to life， Francey Lang s idea
from the beginning， his first major accomplishment as com-
munity relations officer for Glasgow s Millside Division.
A tall， thin man with a raw-boned face slightly marred by
an old razor-slash， he had been a beat cop for fifteen years
before this new job had come his way. Wandering down the
length of the hall， glancing at the display stands as he passed，
he decided the change had been a good one. Community re-
lations officers were new animals in every Scottish police
force. A government-inspired innovation， they were shaping
to be more useful than most of the notions that came from
that direction. Community relations came down to a mixture
of grass-roots crime prevention， social welfare and spreading
the word that cops were people like everyone else. Francey
Lang certainly reckoned the last part was overdue.
A busy squeaking from a road safety stand stopped him
briefly. Rustling around inside their cage， a cluster of trained
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