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Show I BLD FACES BfVCE MOREi APPEAR AT POLICE HEHPHS Reorganization of the Ogden city police po-lice department is progressing steadily, stead-ily, with the plans as outlined bv Commissioner Com-missioner J. R. Ward, in charge of the public safety department gradually taking shape. The reorganization nlans call for n inn t ru-in I iwlnniinn ;. i tho number of men. At the time the new administration took office the police department consisted con-sisted of forty-eight men. At the pros-ent pros-ent tiniu there are thirty-one men on tho forse, aside from men doing special spe-cial duty as watchmen and guards a-t tlie different industrial plants. It is the plan, according to Commissioner Ward, to reduce the force to a total of twenty-eight men. This force will be divided as follows: One captain of police, one chief of detectives." one sergeant, rire detectives, detec-tives, twelve patrolmen, oight uniformed uni-formed and four plain clothes men on duty, all the lime, three desk sei-geants, sei-geants, three chauffeurs, two traff'c Officers :ind nno mirivfl nml wnirriimif. ter. "We propose to have a school for police officers." said Commissioner Ward. "In this school we will teach Ihe. officers their legal rights, traffic regulations and criminal work. We propose to make the police department efficient in every way and with that end in view we aro making the changes and reductions in the force as have been made public. "I am anxious to reorganize the traffic system as now in effect, if that is made possible for me. Wc don't want anj more 'small town' traffic stufr. If it can be done, I propose lo install a modern semaphore system at the main intersections in the business busi-ness district and make Ogden's traffic traf-fic system correspond with the size of the city. "Another thing we need here and a thing I will try to get is a plan whereby where-by traffic can be warned of the approach ap-proach of the firo trucks. I want to install large gongs at Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets and Washington Wash-ington that may be sounded when it is necessary for the fire department to travel those streets in answer to a fire alarm, thus warning traffic so that the streets can be cleared for the fire apparatus." With the 'changes going into efroct in tho police department the following follow-ing men havo been released or transferred: trans-ferred: George Watts, former desk j sergeant has been transferred to tho I plain clothes division. Barlow B. Wll-I Wll-I son, formerly with the police depart jment, has been napied to succeed him. j Charles Bass, formerly traffic officer i at Twenty-fourth and Washington avenue, ave-nue, has been transferred to the plain clothes department. He is succeeded by Michael Shaughnessy. Waller rtichey, desk sergeant, has been released, as has Charles Blair, detective. de-tective. George Wardlaw, long time Ogden detective, has returned to the service as successor to Blair. Charles E. Lie-ser Lie-ser has Succeeded W. L. Neely as night chauffeur. oo |