1210 ARTICLE 4.

Examiners for the City of Baltimore. All police officers, officers of police,
including inspectors and captains, and including also the secretary to the
Police Commissioner, and all detectives, secretaries, clerks and employees,
other than police surgeons, of the Police Department of Baltimore City
shall be retained on the force during good behavior and efficiency by the
said Police Commissioner of the City of Baltimore, and may be removed
by the said Police Commissioner for official misconduct and inefficiency,
and then only after written charges preferred, specifying the time, place
and character of such misconduct and inefficiency, and trial had before
the Police Commissioner, or before the members of the police force desig-
nated by the Police Commissioner to hear evidence in complaints against
members of the department, as provided in Section 745 of this Article,
after reasonable notice thereof.

Keyser v. Upshur, 92 Md. 729. Upshur v. Ward, 124 Md. 778. Upshur v. Hamil-
ton, 95 Md. 567. Smith T. Gaither, 144 Md. 484.

1908, ch. 741. 1922, ch. 507. sec. 745G.

745-0. The detectives provided for in Section 745 of this sub-division
of this Article shall be appointed by the Police Commissioner solely from
the uniform force without competitive examination, and detectives shall
have the grades of detective lieutenants, detective sergeants and detective
patrolmen as provided for in the said Section 745 with the right of pro-
motion without competitive examination and subject to reduction after
trial; the said detectives shall not be allowed to follow any other business
or profession, but shall devote their entire time to the discharge of their
duties as detectives; they shall be selected solely on account of their special
fitness and qualification, in the judgment of the Police Commissioner, to
perform detective work; provided, however, that the Police Commissioner
shall have the power, in his discretion, to transfer from the detective
service and return to the grade in the uniform force from which he may
have been selected, any member of the force so as aforesaid appointed a
detective, who, in the judgment of the said Commissioner, after reason-
able length of employment in the detective service, may be found not quali-
fied to satisfactorily discharge the duties of a detective; and when so
transferred and returned, such member shall only be entitled to receive
the pay of the grade in the uniform force to which he may be transferred
and returned.

1912, ch. 647. 1920, ch. 3. 1922, ch. 507. 1924, ch. 148, sec. 745H.
745P. The Police Commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered
to appoint in his discretion one or more Policewomen to the police force
of Baltimore City, with full power to such Policewomen to act as con-
servators of the peace and perform such other duties as the Commissioner
may prescribe and to be subject in all respects to such rules and regula-
tions as the Police Commissioner may from time to time adopt, and the
said Commissioner shall have the power to remove any Policewoman
appointed by him for the violation of any rule or regulation of the said
Commissioner. The salary of a Policewoman so appointed under the