WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2179
CHAPTER 907.
(House Bill 78)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
875(a) of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edition), title
"Baltimore City", sub-title "Police Commissioner", as said
section was amended by Chapter 514 of the Acts of 1945,
relating to the officers and employees of the* Police Depart-
ment of Baltimore City, the number thereof and clarifying
its provisions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 875(a) of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Police Commis-
sioner", as said section was amended by Chapter 514 of the
Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

875. (a). The Police Commissioner shall have the power to
remove any police officer or officer of police, or any detective,
for any violation of any rule or regulation which he may
make and promulgate to the said police force, officers of
police or any detective. Said police force shall consist of
six inspectors of police, one to be designated from time to
time by the Police Commissioner as chief inspector, and to
be assigned to have charge of said police force, and the others
to be assigned to such duties as the Commissioner may from
time to time direct with full power to the said Commissioner
to change such chief inspector at any time when he may de-
sire to do so and appoint another one of the inspectors to the
duties of said chief inspector; fifteen (15) captains; not more
than thirty-nine (39) lieutenants in addition to the detective
lieutenants hereinafter provided for; one (1) lieutenant, Bu-
reau of Identification; two (2) lieutenants and one (1) machin-
ist, Radio Division; one hundred and ninety-seven (197)
squad sergeants, of whom no more than twenty- four (24)
may, in the discretion of the Police Commissioner, be des-
ignated as second lieutenants, in addition to the detective
sergeants hereinafter provided for, each of whom shall be
assigned from time to time to such duties as the said
Commissioner may direct; seventy-eight (78) detectives, twen-
ty-five (25) of whom shall rank as detective lieutenants,
twenty-eight (28) as detective sergeants and twenty-five (25)
as detective patrolmen, each of whom shall perform such du-
ties as members of the detective force as the said Commis-