ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1451

lice Examiners of the City of Baltimore. The said Police Com-
missioner shall not confirm the nomination or make the appoint-
ment or promotion of any police officer or officer of police, ex-
cept the inspectors of police, detectives and surgeons, and the
secretary to the Police Commissioner and his assistants, whose
name does not appear upon the graded lists to be furnished said
Police Commissioner by the said Board of Police Examiners

for the City of Baltimore. All police officers, officers of police,
including inspectors and captains, and including also the sec-
retary to the Police Commissioner, and all detectives, secre-
taries, 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 designated 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.

745G. 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 pro-
vided for in the said Section 745 with the right of promotion
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 afore-
said appointed a detective, who, in the judgment of the said
Commissioner, after reasonable length of employment in the
detective service, may be found not qualified to satisfactorily
discharge the duties of a detective: and when so transferred
and returned, such member shall only be entitled to receive the