SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1027

(6)   To designate the authority, responsibility, and duties of such
ranks, grades, and civilian classifications and the order of succession
to positions of command within the Department;

(7)   To appoint, promote, reduce in rank or civilian classification,
reassign, reclassify, retire, and discharge all employees in the man-
ner prescribed by law;

(8)   To regulate attendance, conduct, training, discipline, and pro-
cedure for all employees of the Department;

(9)   To provide systems for periodic evaluation and improvement
of the performance and physical condition of employees, including
in-service training programs and courses;

(10)   To establish headquarters, barracks, posts, commands, and
other regional facilities in such localities as may be necessary for
the efficient performance of the duties of the Department and to
discontinue such facilities when such need ceases to exist;

(11)   To purchase or otherwise acquire such land, facilities, equip-
ment or services as are deemed essential for the needs of the Depart-
ment or its employees in carrying out their duties; , IN THE MAN-
NER PRESCRIBED BY LAW;

(12)   To sell or dispose of land, facilities or equipment as such
become unnecessary or unfit for further use; , IN THE MANNER
PRESCRIBED BY LAW;

(13) To establish and modify systems for the reception, process-
ing, and maintenance of reports and records of occurrences or alleged
occurrences of crime and motor vehicle accidents within the State,
and of the administration, management, and operations of the De-
partment; and to establish procedures, not inconsistent with law,
for the safekeeping, copying, and destruction of departmental re-
cords; and

(14) To suspend, amend, rescind, abrogate or cancel any rule
adopted by him or by any former Superintendent.

16.    Deputy Superintendent.

The Superintendent shall, with the approval of the Governor, desig-
nate without examination, to serve at the Superintendent's pleasure,
one of the police employees holding the highest commissioned rank
to be Deputy Superintendent. The Deputy Superintendent shall have
such authority, responsibility, and duties as may be assigned by the
Superintendent and, in case of the absence from the State or in-
capacitating disability of the Superintendent, shall have all of the
powers and duties conferred by law upon the Superintendent. A
Deputy Superintendent designated in accordance with this section
shall, notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, continue
in office at the pleasure of the Superintendent. Upon termination of
such designation by the Superintendent, such person shall return
to the rank held by him prior to such designation.

Police and Civilian Employees

17.    Appointment of employees.

(a) Generally. The Superintendent shall, within the limits of any