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(3)    To assign and reassign, allocate and reallocate, employees of
the Department to such duties, organizational subdivisions, and
regional facilities of the Department as in his judgment may be
necessary to best serve the needs of the Department and the public
interest;

(4)    To establish standards, qualifications, and prerequisites of
character, training, education, and experience for all employees;

(5)    To determine and establish such ranks and grades and, in
accordance with the merit system, such civilian classifications as he
may deem necessary and appropriate;

(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 manner
prescribed by law;

(8)    To regulate attendance, conduct, training, discipline, and
procedure 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 discon-
tinue 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 manner
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 al-
leged occurrences of crime and motor vehicle accidents within the
State, and of the administration management, and operations of the
Department; and to establish procedures, not inconsistent with law,
for the safekeeping, copying, and destruction of departmental rec-
ords; and

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

(15)    To grant permission to off duty state police officers to use
marked police vehicles during off duty hours for specific periods of
time as a deterrent to crime, provided however, that only the officers
to whom permission has been granted may operate the vehicles, and
provided that the vehicles, in the opinion of the Superintendent, will
not be needed by on duty officers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 5, 1972.