Show Discipline Is Important pOLICE OLICE CHIEF REED E. E is toS to tobe S I be congratulated for his action in disciplining disciplining disciplining two police officers accused of shirking shirking shirking shirk ing their duty in the matter of filling venires for jury duty in Salt Lake police court The officers were ordered suspended without pay for two days Chief and Police Judge Bosone charged the two officers instead of following the regular practice of filling a venire from various places in order to get a section cross-section of the population selected prospective jurors at such places as a in drive-in eating establishment and a department store As a result in one of the panels called to try a case in which an of a beer parlor was charged with selling beer to an intoxicated person six of the eight persons on the venire were employed in beer parlors dispensing beer In a second panel all but one had to be dismissed because they were too young at least three of the eight being under 20 It isn't so much what these two patrolmen did in the way of shirking their duty or the amount of punishment meted out which is important in this case The important thing is the absolute necessity of insuring the faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful performance of EVERY duty by all members members members mem mem- bers of the police department Only through discipline can such faithful I performance be secured And to have such discipline we must have a responsible head of the department who has unquestioned authority authority authority author author- ity and exercises his authority over the departments department's departments department's departments department's de de- de- de personnel Those members of the department guilty of dereliction of duty or of violating department regulations must be punished punished punished pun pun- according to the gravity of the offense even even to the point of discharge in extreme cases And EVERY member of the police department must understand that the authority authority authority author author- ity is there there that that it can and will be exercised and and that its fair and judicious exercise will willbe willbe willbe be supported by the commissioner of public safety the city commission and the civil service service service ice commission We need good discipline in our police de de- And we haven't had too much of it in the past |