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Article: Officer Elvis hits Strip District beat in stride
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- January 19, 2008
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Elvis has quite a following in the Strip District.
It's been fewer than two weeks since his commander assigned him
to walk the business district eight hours a day. Yet shopkeepers and
workers wave to Officer Elvis Duratovic -- who graduated from the
Pittsburgh police academy in November -- and call out his name as he
passes through.
"It is so great to have an officer here who we see every day,
because we need that," said David Sunseri, co-owner of the 106-year-
old Pennsylvania Macaroni Co. "The Strip is a place tourists come to
and people visit with their families and spend all day. It needs to
be safe."
Cmdr. George Trosky sent the rookie to the Strip and said he
hopes to get officers in ...