21.   One narcotics officer who works the area describes continuing pressure from superiors to keep arrests up, even as the drug trade shrinks.

22.   Once investigators are satisfied that Thomas, an undercover narcotics officer in Brooklyn, is cooperating, he can be removed from suspension and put on desk duty.

23.   Police said Phillips was the target of a larger undercover investigation by narcotics officers.

24.   Some narcotics officers are embarrassed that they must spend time pursuing violators of laws about which society is ambivalent and whose consequences are so light.

25.   The assault stopped only when a livery cab pulled up and, separately, a team of undercover narcotics officers who had been working nearby arrived.

26.   The house, owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gary, was raided twice last summer by narcotics officers.

27.   The narcotics officers saw Reynoso and Green running north on Broadway with four or five other teen-agers, Ms. Mode said.

28.   The weapon is not issued to narcotics officers but is used by drug dealers.

29.   Two unarmed narcotics officers were gunned down late Tuesday by a third officer they spotted in a drug-evidence room, authorities said Wednesday.

30.   Undercover narcotics officers found her on the street again and arrested her.