21.   Galvin had gone to the apartment with three other plainclothes officers after they received a tip that there were weapons inside and had obtained a search warrant.

22.   Four plainclothes officers were searching for a rapist last month when they confronted Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building.

23.   He recalled a time last November in Queens when three plainclothes officers descended upon him from an unmarked car and frisked him, saying they were looking for guns.

24.   If an arrest is required, he said, the plainclothes officers would call in the precinct police.

25.   In some operations, the department flushes the street with plainclothes officers to sweep out guns and drugs.

26.   In the Bronx, there is a plainclothes narcotics officer who went to Harvard.

27.   Jones, a plainclothes housing officer who was assigned to lower Manhattan, will be buried Friday.

28.   Jones, who was not married, had worked in a bicycle unit and as an anticrime plainclothes officer.

29.   Last September two plainclothes officers were accused of severely beating a man in East Harlem.

30.   Looking into the crowd of reporters outside the synagogue Tuesday, Sharansky joked about the lack of the plainclothes KGB officers.