Police Headquarters was a 1932 crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

 radio drama

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

. Bruce Eells Associates produced this series which was syndicated to West Coast NBC radio stations. Each program lasted for about 15 minutes: music was featured in the first part of the show, an announcer would do a commercial or two, then the 12 minute episode would follow. A total of thirty-nine episodes were produced.

The program centered around a citizen reporting a crime via telephone and police use of two-way radio

Two-way radio

A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive , unlike a broadcast receiver which only receives content. The term refers to a personal radio transceiver that allows the operator to have a two-way conversation with other similar radios operating on the same radio frequency...

 to set up a dragnet

Dragnet

Dragnet may refer to:* A type of fishing net*Dragnet , a coordinated search, named for the fishing net-Dragnet media series:...

to find criminals and solve cases. While the programs were based upon actual cases, the cases had not always been solved (as presented in the program). The police in the drama would investigate a murder, a bank robbery, etc. and apprehend the perpetrators.