P.O.'s prayer to St. Michael

St. Michael, Heavens glorious Commissioner of Police, who once so neatly & successfully cleared God's premises of undesirables, look with kindly & professional eye on your eartly force.

Give us cool heads, stout hearts, hard punches, and uncanny flair for investigation and wise judgement. Make us the terror of burglars, the friend of children & law -abiding citizens, kind to strangers, polite to bores, strict with law-breakers and impervious to temptations.

You know St. Michael, from your own experience with the devil that the P.O.'s lot on earth is not always a happy one; but your sense of duty that so pleased God, your hard knocks that so surprised the devil, and you angelic self control give us inspiration. And when we lay down our night sticks, enroll us in your Heavenly Force, where we will be as proud to guard the throne of God as we have been to guard the city of men.
Amen