A spokesman for Mayor Lindsay’s office denied today a charge by Bronx Borough president Robert Abrams that the police department had cancelled a program of providing special watch for Jewish and Christian houses of worship and other institutions in the city which have been the targets of various forms of vandalism. The spokesman said that the police department had rearranged the protection program so that all such institutions, rather than a selected few, would be under regular police watch. He added that the Mayor’s office felt the revised police program would provide adequate protection for such institutions. He explained that, as part of the prior program, city agencies referred complaints to the police department from officials of the institutions to the precinct in which the institution was located and the precinct officers then instructed patrol cars to maintain a special watch on those institutions. The spokesman emphasized that there was no change in that aspect of the police program.
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