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Show Police Department Compares Favorably With Other Constabularies in Country L:vent of Last Year Was Removal Into Commodious New Quarters; System Sys-tem of Alarms Installed; Women's Accommodations are Excellent; Ex-cellent; Culinary Division Is Good; Force Is Efficient. THAT tho Sn If Lako pnlim ,f.p;.rt im-ut ran Us liitfh in prujiortionatti t:Urit-nry ainl I'oin pa ri-s oi ahl y with auv olifc orajii.at ion in tu: L'niicl .Stairs is .ill own at this tiiii'1 lis.' u runipnnsim or' the local d.'pai't-iii d.'pai't-iii 'Ti i. witii ttif it j I ii-ii I iirnis ot other A-i.i'.i to illiiHt rati' l,v tlt-linitft statH-ti-i the r.t unlit ion of Salt l.uke'n police k.'-.i v ir, is toilay, rhi.'i' H. tirant c )i o-:t' I ,us A j i r -1 1 s as a i-r't t.crion an. I ifium-il i.'xlrar (rum t'inl ciiv's currt'iit pnli.-c n-port to sIkkv how the local le- :i r : uiioit i-ouipun--! with the polim t'or.'o h! a rir v thn-c t ini.-s rer in si''.e and jioiily promt of it?? polio! orani.a-Uon. orani.a-Uon. With an approximate ."ir, v appi'o-priatinn appi'o-priatinn nr' $l.iiiiu( Salt 'l.itk.-' i.s I'd'inpj yiianii'il by 1 in pnii.-e otVii-i-r.-, ahon't .invent v-live of whom arc i istriluit e ttvpy fi l't.y-si x stpiarp miles of the business busi-ness d iwt rift, infill, and day. I. oh A nidcs shun hi h;i'e in proper-linn proper-linn a r.iiol of $i:;l'.hui) with uhiHi tn maintain a fon-o of )'..''.() person for police po-lice duty. Vim r-norl shows that rlie pi'ooort ion;; I lunli't i c cU'A by several sev-eral I hoi isa n i Is of 1 1 o 1 hi en in 1-os A n -Ipr and liia. tli" poiii e form is nmeh larger than the si.e and population usually us-ually ''alls fur. A en nl i np to n idose est i main iiiad-; hy A. A. Barker, assistant secretary to tlirt ehief, the year's report, of the depart de-part men t, now hei ti ir triad e ready for the printer, will show a t ot ;i I of 777" arrests for the ear. Quarters Changed. ('crimps the event of the year in po-Itep po-Itep rindes occurred ou Saturday, JIareh fl, when the depart men t moved from its old quart ers, adjoining the central tire station, to the vacated Y. M. O. A. iniildin, now the public safety building, build-ing, on t lie soul tienst corner of thirst. South and State street. The structure j of the building happened to be p.dapted t n its new nstie, and com for table and hands-nun housing for the rolice, health and part of the tire department, was j ulmiined after some remodeling The pe-rsoiinel of f he depart men I has been changer but little during the last; year, shvo by the addition to the force' of ten patrolmen of the third and second sec-ond grades. I n direct! iifj the act i vo work of the department. Chief (irant has been capably capa-bly assisted by hispevtnr C. A. (.'arl- , son. The rank of inspector, as it ap- plies in the local department, is eqniv- 1 alent to the rank of assistant chief, and much of t ho extensive business of police po-lice headquarters pusaos throuqh Inspector Inspec-tor Carlson's hands, or ia referred to him for decision. It is agreed in police circles that Inspector Carlson's keen memory and decisive judgment have in many i nstanc.p.x placed old offenders aain behind the oars and also saved the innocent from the stigma of the cell. Work in Shifts. Two captains follow Inspector Carl-mui Carl-mui in rank. Captain J. .1. Roberta, veteran vet-eran police officer of Salt bake and holding au enviable record for efficiency, is the senior officer, while Captain t'juil V. Johnson holds the commission of junior captain. Across the spacious rotunda of the main tloor, now almost tropical with glowing rubber plants, oue ascends the ?tnirs to the lower tloor, where the matter-of-fact, impartial business of the police department is transacted. A large room at the extreme southwest corner of the basement is the desk ser-: ser-: eant 's office. There all prisoners are taken to be booked and searched before beimr taken down the lone corridor that leads, to the jail. Presiding over the i denk and '"blotter'' for the tirt ; eight hour-, of the day is S.-rg-ant John l.i-ni. Me is relieved bv Sergeant Ser-geant I'an Cnirtdvb', who in turn leaver when S,er:jeai;t William Key ting arrives at lu o'rloek nr. nig,,t. The id-sl- spt-gcants spt-gcants a re b;i il com jc isi oners, u rnlT bond. It is their duty to fix the amount of bail in minor cr.se-. Three other e;--,.;iiits direct the operations op-erations of the men on the streets, one sergean I for each (,f t he eight-hou r shifts. The dutv xergeanM, as they are d i rigton, who, alt hongli a man compar-caJled, compar-caJled, ehi:g': shifts at intervals of soy- i era I in on I ii.. Thomas sin; jison is the , dnry sergeant for the first relief this j month, lie is relieved by I Jar re i Ked- , atively young in the service, lias proven , his wort h hs an efficient officer. The i third shift is done by Charles Olsen, a j veteran member of the department who has demonstrated his ability upon many occasions. Plain Clothes Squad. I'h ree ja i lers, Joseph Biih, Hichard Heynon and Isnnc Kmery; three motor cycle men, St, .loin; F) endrickson and Villey; and three patrol drivers, 0. C. Brown, George "Moore and Dennis Sullian, are on duty during the cigth hours of their shifts. A plain clothes stpiad is necessary to all police departments. Salt Lako citizens have, such a squad of police othcers in civilian clothes at their com-innnd. com-innnd. flight of these men are rated as det ect i ve. while several otlior men, with the rating of patrolmen, are working work-ing in plain clothes. The men listed as city detectives arc (ieorgn Chase, Harlow I). Lvon. Hert tSenger, -I. E. Woodard, J. A. Kgbert, Reed Billings, V. C. eef5e, Aloroni Hillespie and F. D. II unt small. Effective work is be-ing be-ing done by Krank Clenn, W. S. Brown, Ben Seigfus. V. H. .Lever and C. A. Williams, who are also detailed to plain clothes duty. j The problem of jailing prisoners if! j always one of i m port a nee in the est t-mation t-mation of police authorities. Salt La he has a modern ia.il house, directly in the rear of the police station proper, where seventy -live or eighty prisoners can be locked up individually or where more than a hundred prisoners can be ecm-clv kept in the cells and corridors. corri-dors. Place for Women. The jail is divided into six cell rooms. In the basement is a small room equipped with wooden bunks for the keeping oi! intoxicated men. This little room is emptied each morning, fumigated and thoroughly cleaned by ' trusties. ' ' Down the corridor from the "submarine,'' as the place is called in the vernacular of the police, is another an-other cell room, larger and equipped with barred partitions. On the main floor there is a small emergency hospital hos-pital room, the jailer's office, a padded cell for insane prisoners, the boys' ward and a two-tier cell room, where the most fractious prisoners are confined. Above this are the women's quarters, connected to the apartments of Mrs. Hannah Stokes, matron, by a .bridge to the old police building. The "trusty" system is successfully used in Salt Lake. When a man is sentenced by the judge he is observed bv the jailers for perhaps a day or two. If he behaves himself and shows a disposition to work he is made a "trusty"' and assigned some duties around the public safety building and the jail., sucli as cleaning and scrubbing. scrub-bing. The "trusties" are not allowed to leave the police territory, but are free to move about at will within bounds. A nether phase of the 1 ' I ruytv ' ' system sys-tem is !e-s popular with the uufortu-n:i uufortu-n:i te. When an a bl -bud ie I man sentenced lie is elected member of the prion road aang. Kaeh morning ar o'clock, after he bus had his breai-ia-.t of coffee and beans, he is sent out with t he ga ng to work on the roads in and around Salt Lake. The iaug -h i 1 1 s are under the direction of D . II. ( 'rowthers and 1 '. P. Xeilson, both city police oflicers. Tf a prisoner has no suitable clothing he is made wym ainl comfortable with a pair of prison siioe.s and clothes. These articles of clothing are purchased in lots yearly bv the city purchasing agent 'ami a re given to the prisoners when they need them. Culinary Department. One may wonder just how an average aver-age of twenty-one prisoners each day firo fed. For more than eighteen years Mrs. Nellie Pickett has been doing that work and doing it to the immense ! satisfaction of the inmates. On the ! hnsement floor of the jail building Mrs. I Pickett has her kitchen. There are ; huge kettles and boilers in which the , beans are cooked and the coffeo brewed three times a day for the men behind the bars. For the past several years 1 Mrs. Pickett has had the contract to feed the men. For this service an outlay of $rtOOO a year is set aside by the city. Before obtain i ng the contract con-tract for herself Mrs. Pickett was associated as-sociated with the holders of the contract. con-tract. The "line-up, M or mornlug observation, observa-tion, of prisoners. Is a police system with both good and bad features. Each morning the arrested men are lined up in a long corridor near the desk sergeant ser-geant 's office. The detectives, captains and men from the near-,by beats come in for this ceremony. The officers secrete themselves behind a partition and study the men as they file past lattice-work windows, much like the shutters in the old-time window blinds. The police oflicers can see the men in front of them plainly while the prisoners pris-oners cannot see the officers. Tn the case of real criminals it is, of course, considered wise to have their faces familiar to the police, but. many comparatively com-paratively innocent men are considered criminals in the "line-up" and are accordingly ac-cordingly picked up on sight. Busy at Nights. "While the morning and afternoon shifts of the police force are occupied with the recovery of stolen goods, the regulation of traffic, courts and the investigation of criminal cases, the actual capture of criminals and the protection pro-tection of homes while the city sleeps, falls to the lot of the night shift. The business man who "locks his store in the evening and goes home, the man who is forced to leave his wife and children alone at night, depend on the night shift for protection against those men who pursue their criminal inclinations inclina-tions under the cloak of darkness. Tn speaking of the work of the night force Inspector Carlson said: I wonder if the citizens know just how they are protected. They know in a general way, I presume, but the business of protecting life and property is an intricate one. Let us suppose that Mr. Good Citizen hears a burglar in the act of entering his house on Third avenue. ave-nue. He steps quietly and quickly to the telephone and says "police alarm, M or, if he knows the number, "Wasatch S-F." The operator at once connects him with the desk sergeant. He says, "This is number num-ber Third avenue. There are b'.ir-la-? in the house.'' That is al! thar is veceary. If he srons m j into n-1t.'u!.--, if he t-i'-- hi-t nnme, ! i. nles the M--r;r.nllt a';s fr i:. it j he i excited and ho:;tj, much time I is !rir. j gean.t WiP i am Revting. still . at imp telephone, s-ivs, -Oit rmdv ', " Jam-s K. W.i'odard and -f. A. Kbert. detectives of the Tib'h! -hi;':. rand ax attention rr-adv for the number. Sergeant Keyring speaks the number distinctly.' dis-tinctly.' The men run fur the waiting wait-ing automobile at the curb. In an instant the powerful run tor t hrohs and the t hei -pin over the pavements pave-ments to r he given a-M rer-s. The ar is- ha'-ed a few f-'et from the hoi is p. Woodard r;;?is abound one side of the house and Kgberl, his partner. iake the other M.-e. If the huriar eii! "m the Ncie he is as good a in custody, but meu of that r!as leave the house at the first alarm, and the most pre1, aide place to look for him is in the rear of the place, where he is i:o doubt "caling fen.-es and trying for a g-'THwi'y aeros-cs lots. If the man is any place near the house he is captured. The officers know that there is no alternative. Their reputat ion as ofi'ieers, perhaps per-haps their live deoeue. i;pou it. 17 the householder has. delayed in calling the police and the man has escaped, different tactics, are used bv tiie officers. They examine the place of entry. .Burglars, like artists ar-tists and craftsmen, often sign their work wi til un mist ak able t rade marks. Often a man works in fruch a way that his jobs can be identified iden-tified at once. Then the officers go to hii haunts and take him into custody on suspicion. If there is no clue to the identify of the man the machine is again rot under way and the men cover the city, questioning ques-tioning and sometimes arresting such men as cannot explain their presence at a certain place. Descriptions Valuable, An observant citizen who has sepn the burglar can sometimes give the officers a description of him. More often, however, he only remembers re-members the appearance of the gun in his face. Tn case an accurate accur-ate description is obtained the men report to the desk sergeant, who in turn communicates with the duty sergenitt on the street. The duty sergeant, on his rounds tells eacli officer to pick up a man answering the given description. In many cases the man is caught scveraT hours after the robbery in the act of boarding a freight train or walking about without purpose ou-the ou-the streets. The work of .T. K. Woodard and J. A. Egbert has often been brought to the attention of Salt Lake citizens. Their 1 knowledge of criminals and their zeal in fulfilling the duties of police officers has given them prestige in police circles. ' Work horses, and in fact aUB animals, ani-mals, find a powerful friend in the po- j lice department, as the humane officer, j F. B. Tripp, looks after the welfare of , animals and vigorously prosecutes cases j where the owners have neglected to i feed them property or have them com- j fortably shod or where they abuse them. In the summer months the problem ; of stolen automobiles is one contended j with by the police. Approximately sev, ; enty cars were stolen last summer, and i all of them were recovered within a few hours, or, in some instances, -a few days, by the police and .the sheriff's forces. It is estimated that 28,365 worth of property was stolen in Salt Lake last year, and that the same figures fig-ures will apply this year. Of that amount $9573 was recovered by the police po-lice for the owners. System of Alarms. A modern and efficient alarm "and report re-port system is in use by the local police. po-lice. There are twenty-live boxes scattered scat-tered throughout the business district. Each patrolman has a key to a box. At intervals of an hour he reports by telephone to the alarm office on the top floor of the police station. The number of his box: and the time of his reporting report-ing is perforated on a strip of paper automaticallv and sent, at the end of the shift, to" the sergeant. The officers can also use the box telephone to call t he patm waor. o- to report anything '"csry to ': ? d.---k sergeant. " If a rio or a e ;-.:!cr n. '.n fi re occurs in the citv vac- p:;;:oi:! a-;, the man on the b.-vit, repn;ts to T r do.sk sergeant. Tf : that oiVicer cor.?- i'-ra it necessary he :cnds th alarm o : f : o operaTor, inTuct-; inTuct-; iii l: him to send ft a sen era ! alarm, With one throw of a lever the corner j boxes ae ftcr 'i:..'.:..', and ail patrolmen j rnu at once p-, :!.ci'- boxes and report by ! telephone t the ; t i.-n. Tr.ev are then ti.-eced to go to the scene" of the trouble. Bv Ids means the whole street force f-au h,. concentrated at a specified place in a very few moments. If eharitv beeir. at heme it often ends in the police station. For the. unfortunates who are not criminals, I I but who are without a place to sleep,! the department has provided accoin- j inodMiotis. 'i he basement under the' old sta: ion : - uted as a lodging room. At pieent the men sleep or. the tloor, using a roll of clothing for a pillow. It 'is, however, suggeted that wooden bunks be constructed, with canvas hot-turns, hot-turns, to :na !-e rest possible. The canvas can-vas bunks could be cleaned daily and the hose could be turned on the room without injury. It is thought probable that such a change will .be made for the comfort of the city's innocent but unfortunate guests. To Increase Efficiency. Although many recommendations will probably be made to the city commission commis-sion when the annua, reporv is made by the chief of police, none of these suggestions lias been made public, as yet. ome of the more important plans, however, are generally known. It is agreed that Salt Lake 's business busi-ness district cannot, be made absolutely absolute-ly safe without more men. i-'or this reason additions will no doubt be made to the force. The four vehicles used by the department, de-partment, one patrol and throe touring cars, have seen much hard service and it is considered time that new machines were purchased or that the present, machines ma-chines be overhauled and a few new cars added. From unofficial circles it is rumored that the identification and Byrtillon systems now. in utic at the police station sta-tion will ho changed to something more practical and that the department will be put in competent hands. As it exists today h-'a't Lake has the sunaliest police department in the country coun-try for the size of the city. Efficient Effi-cient as il is admitted to be, it is too small, and yet it is the largest in the history of the city. Mutual Aid Prospers. "With the inauguration of a few changes in the working system tht; Salt Lake police department will continue con-tinue to build up to even better standards stand-ards through the present year. With the arrival of the new year the Police Mutual Aid association completed com-pleted four years of usefulness and started on the fifth year of its existence exist-ence in a prosperous cond it ion. George Chase is president, Sergeant C. W. Olson vice president, O. C. Brown treasurer, George II. Moore secretary. The association has prospered pros-pered financially during the last year., Twd 'hundred and seventy-two dol-: lars has been paid out in sick benefits, j $500 has been expended on the death . fund the occasion being the demise of. H. A. Olsen; $77.50 has been spent f or j floral tributes to the sick and deceased and $1.40 has been used for charity, i The Salt Lake Poffee Mutual Aid ; association is comprised of. the active members of the police and prison departments de-partments of the city. There aremore i than a hundred members, paying monthly dues of fifty cents, which 'amount is deducted from the pay-roll. I In the event of a member being ill j a benefit of one dollar a day is paid him after the first week of his sick-! sick-! ness for sixteen weeks. The amount . 1 is then reduced to fifty cents a day. I Should he die, $500 is due his wife. I In case a member's wife dies, $250 is paid the member. Widows Remembered. ' Upon each Christmas much charita- ble work is done. The widows of de- ; ceased members, one this year and a total of five in four years, "are presented present-ed a turkey by the association, and ' in many instances other remembrance? for their welfare. A board of managers, composed of Inspector C A. turiton, chairman; YV. Tucker, Clifford Patten, Richard Beynon and Henry Schranr, confer with the officers of the association. On Decoration day the graves of deceived members are banked with floral flo-ral offerings. I An animal dance is a part of the, association 's plan. Last year $ll'oO , was cleared from the dance given at the Odeon. Although Secretary George Moore would not definitely say that a dance would be held this year, he said: "It is the practice of the aoociat iou to, give a dance, and while the matter has not been brought before the direc- ' tors and officers as yet, .it is quite probable that a daneo will be held toward spring. ' ' 1- on v hu nd red and eighty-nine dob, lars was paid the association last year in dues, leaving a total of i?o7i'0 in the treasury, with which to carry on the good work for the coming year. |