Police AcademyCitizens on Patrol is the fourth comedy film in the Police Academy series. It was released in 1987.
Commandant Eric Lassard George Gaynes decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work sidebyside with his officers in a program called Citizens On Patrol COP. Carey Mahoney Steve Guttenberg and his friends Moses Hightower Bubba Smith, Larvell Jones Michael Winslow, Eugene Tackleberry David Graf, Zed Bobcat Goldthwait, Sweetchuck Tim Kazurinsky, Laverne Hooks Marion Ramsey, and Debbie Callahan Leslie Easterbrook are in charge of training the civilians. The civilians include the enormous Tommy House Conklin Tab Thacker, gungho senior citizen Lois Feldman Billie Bird, Tackleberrys own fatherinlaw, and skateboarding delinquents Kyle David Spade and Arnie Brian Backer. They were caught by Capt. Harris and the judge was about to throw the book at him, until Mahoney spoke to the judge to let Arnie and Kyle join COP program as alternative punishment. The judge agreed of this.Captain Thaddeus Harris G. W. Bailey believes the concept of citizens doing police work is asinine and is determined to see the COP program fail and take over Lassards job at the academy. When Lassard leaves on an overseas conference, Harris, along with his right hand man Lt. Proctor Lance Kinsey, are put in charge of the academy and Harris immediately plots to make the COP volunteers quit and leave the police work to the officers. The volunteers however do well in their training. Mrs. Feldman excels in firing Tackleberrys .44 Magnum and the two find a friendly bond in each other. In training for water safety and drowning victim rescue, Zed rescues a cadet but experiences a personal loss of his no longer functioning Mickey Mouse watch, saying it was the last thing he ever stole before joining the academy. Through his loss Zed gains a love interest, Laura Corinne Bohrer, a reporterphotographer who has come to the academy to view Lassards COP program and takes a fancy to Zed. Unfortunately Harris ruins the moment and ins
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