<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (June 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Due to a shortage of police officers, the newly elected mayor of an unnamed American city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards . Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes . </P> <P> Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg) is an easy - going man who has repeatedly gotten himself in trouble with the law when standing up to arrogant people . Mahoney is forced to join the police force as an alternative to jail, a proposal by Captain Reed who has been lenient on Mahoney because of knowing his father, who was also a policeman . Mahoney reluctantly agrees to this, deciding that he will get himself thrown out as a loophole . However, the chief of police, Henry Hurst (George R. Robertson), outraged by the Mayor's lowered requirements, decides that the new cadets should be forced to quit rather than being thrown out . </P>

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