1272 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 457

technical ranks of officers assigned to the Detective
Bureau, Bureau of Identification and Radio Division,
and to authorize the Police Commissioner to appoint
such number of clerks and other civilian employees of
the Police Department as may, in his judgment, be
necessary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That sub-section (a) of Section 532 of the Charter and
Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition), title
"Miscellaneous Local Laws", sub-title "Police Commis-
sioner", heading "Miscellaneous",, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

532. (a) The Police Commissioner shall have the
power to remove any [police] uniformed 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 Department of Baltimore City. The uniformed 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 Police Commissioner may from time to time
direct, with full power to the [said] Police Commissioner
to change such chief inspector at any time [when] he may
desire to do so and appoint another one of the inspectors
to the duties of said chief inspector; not more than fifteen
(15) captains; not more than [thirty-nine (39)] seventy-
five (75) lieutenants; [in addition to the detective lieuten-
ants hereinafter provided for; one (1) lieutenant, Bureau
of Identification; two (2) lieutenants and (1) machinist,
Radio Division; one hundred and ninety-seven (197)
squad] not more than three hundred and fifteen sergeants,
[of whom no more than twenty-four (24) may, in the
discretion of the Police Commissioner, be designated 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, twenty-five (25)
of whom shall rank as detective lieutenants, twenty-eight
(28) as detective sergeants and twenty-five (25) as detec-
tive patrolmen, each of whom shall perform such duties as
members of the detective force as the said Commissioner
may from time to time direct; ] not more than sixteen
hundred and twenty-five [(1, 600)] 1625, 1925 patrolmen;
[in addition to the detective patrolmen hereinbefore pro-