WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1763

rendered unfit for his performance of the duties of the posi-
tion to which he seeks appointment or promotion; or who
is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to
excess; or has been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notori-
ously disgraceful conduct, or has been dismissed from the
public service for delinquency or misconduct, or who has
intentionally made a false statement of any material fact,
or practiced, or attempted to practice, any deception or
fraud in Ms application, in Ms examination, or in securing
his elegibility or appointment.

891. In the appointment, promotion, reduction in rank,
transfer or removal of any police officer or officers of police,
or any detective by the Police Commissioner for the City
of Baltimore, and in his administration of the Police Depart-
ment of Baltimore City, ecclesiastical and party ties shall not
be regarded, so that the Police Department of said City may
be entirely out of the field of political and religious differ-
ences, controversies and influences.

892. All police officers, officers of police, including in-
spectors 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 mis-
conduct 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
designated by the Police Commissioner to hear evidence in
complaints against members of the department, as provided
in Section 875 of this Article, after reasonable notice thereof.

893. The detectives provided for in Section 875 of this sub-di-
vision of this Article shall have the grades of detective lieu-
tenants, detective sergeants and detective patrolmen as pro-
vided for in said Section 875, with the right of promotion
as in this sub-title provided for. Detectives in the Police
force 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. 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