Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there| his'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girlsuspected of a payroll robbery and| then| helps break up a bank robbery. His long day ends when he arrives at home and finds that his daughter has a date with thepoliceman who gave him a ticket that morning.