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Show CHIEF LYHCH ASKS FOR MORE PATttOUIEK Chief of Police Win lam ?. Lynch has submitted his annual report to the Mayot and City Council, In which h asks that the force be Increased by the addition of twenty-seven patrolmen. - The report says that the discipline has been, well maintained during the last year and that a more harmonious condition has never existed than at this time among officers and men. . ' "The department," he says, "should be Increased to meet the demands put upon It by the growth and development of the city. We should have at least seventy-five seventy-five men In the department, to place It on an equal footing with other cities of Its clasa - "This department and the Ogden department depart-ment have werked practically as one department, de-partment, with the view of apprehending criminals who Jump from one city to the other. , "During the year 8S01 arrests were made. The Mayor pardoned thirty-eight prisoners. The salaries of the men In the department amounted to M7JM-S0, and the general expense was S2XK.92. Proceeds from fines and forfeitures was 138,138, making the net cost of operating the de-partment de-partment tU.ISS.73 for the year.,r. |