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Session Laws, 1918 Session
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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 281

or any detective for the violation of any rule or regulation
which they may make and promulgate to the said police force,
officers of police or any detective; said police force shall consist
of one marshal and one deputy marshal of police; and for each
police district, one captain, two lieutenants, two round ser-
geants, two turnkeys (who shall have the rank of patrolmen),
and one clerk, and not more than three signal and telephone
operators at each station-house; two additional captains, one of
whom shall be assigned to have charge of the detective office,
and one of whom shall be assigned to have charge of the police
patrol boats; five additional lieutenants, one of whom shall be
assigned to have charge of the Bureau of Identification; one of
whom shall be assigned to the said police patrol boats; one of
whom shall be assigned to have charge of the police department
horses, wagons, motor vehicles and stables; one of whom shall
be the superintendent of the police signal and telephone service;
one of whom shall be assigned to night duty at Police Head-
quarters; and detectives not exceeding twenty-five, who shall
not be allowed to follow any business or profession, but who
shall devote their entire time to the discharge of their duties
as detectives, no such lieutenant of detectives shall be eligible
to take an examination for the grade of captain until he shall
have served ten years as a detective, each and all such detectives
to rank as lieutenants with equal opportunities of promotion
with other lieutenants; such number of sergeants as the Board
of Police Commissioners in their judgment may deem necessary;
two additional round sergeants, one of whom shall be assigned
as assistant to the superintendent of the police signal and tele-
phone service, and one of whom shall be an experienced
machinist and shall be known as superintendent of machinery,
who shall have charge of the mechanical care and repair of the
motor vehicles of the Police Department, respectively, and seven
hundred and ninety patrolmen, to be graded as provided in
section 745 1/2 of this Act; and ten clerks, two of whom shall be
in charge of the store house; four of whom shall be assigned to
Detective headquarters; two of whom shall be in the Secretary's
office, and two of whom shall be stenographers in the office of
the Marshal of Police. The said police force may be increased
at any time if in the opinion of the said Board the public peace
shall so require, to any number and for such periods of time as
they may think proper by the appointment of special policemen,
who shall receive the sum of $2. 50 per day for their services.
The members of the police force shall receive the following sal-

 

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