The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-10
BOARD OF POLICE.

RADICAL CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF DETAIL
MRNT-THE SECOND AND THIRD PRECINCTS
NOT TO BE observation-disclosures OF IN
sPEcToRs TO THE NEWLY CREATED DISTRICTS.
The full Board OF Police commissioners met yes
terday afternoon, President Matsell IN the chair.
communication was received from Captain
| Mccullough. OF the Seventeenth precinct, denying
the truth OF the testimony recently given against
him by Mollle Small, before the Assembly Investi-
eating Committee. Accompanying the documents
| were afndavits substantiating the same. The
/ papers were referred, on motion, to the Chief
! Clerk, superintendent and counsel to the Board.
On motion OF Commissioner Disbecker, from the
| Committee on Street Cleaning, the CHIEF Gle rk
| was directed TO request from the Pilot Commits
siOners tue assignment OF q SUI able place al sea,
not far rom the city, for the dumping OF garbage.
The Commissioner explained that much difficulty
and danger was experienced by The street Clean
ing Bureau In taking scogs containing the mate
rial roo great a distance from shore.
The folio wing patromen we're dismissed rom
the department, the first Eve being the men
against whom the Board, at the lnstigatlon OF
General Smith, preferred charges OF perjury, for
having it Is alleged, testified falsely In cise
pending before the Commissioners :-E. Maoney
Wilhlm Ellard. Erastus r. Townsend, L. Hursch
and Il. J. McGOush, OF the Twenty-seventh pre-.
einct and Timothy Harrington, Of the Thirteenth
precinct
on motion OF Commissioner Smith the follow
ing resolution was adopted -
Resolved That the Board deny the application OF
asking that the station house Chambers street and
has passed beyond the control of the Police Department
THIS application, IL viii be remembered. was in
tie lOrm Of a pet tion. signed by a large humber
OF the leading mercantile firms In the lower part
OF tue city, protesting against the abOl5hment or
the Second ana Third precincts ana praying for
"a IN 10 IA qnau chlU na
worked lnJuriousy to the protection OF properly.
For a long time past the Board has had under
advlsement the propriety OF enecting radical
changes in the system OF the detallment OF
patrolmen. As a rule, special detail duty is re-
gdrded by policemen with great favor, and the
places nave been eagerly sought for. Inc result
mas Deen that large numbers OF able-oodled MEM
bers OF the force nave occupied these positions TO
the exclusion IN many instances OF men physi-
calIy lncapaclEat ted from performing proper patrol
duty, but stu. having good records
The following resolution In relation 70 the mat
ter was adopted with view 10 make sweeping
changes IN the system by placing on detailed duty
sueh policemen are not fully capable OF per-
forming with satisfaction the WORK OF regular
PATROL
Resolved That the superintendent be directed to re-
the Board the names of ali patromen at present
on detailed duty who are phyAcaAy competent for
on motion OF Commissioner Smith it was re-
solved "that the the paJr0lmeh detailed for duty
at the buildings OF the HERALD ana Nelcs be re-
manded 20 atrol duty and that the Captain OF
Ihe Fourth precinct be directed to cause the nec-
essary attendance Of patr0lmen to preserve
Tne presence oil these officers at the above
places, the commissioners say, IS required only at
certain hours Of the day, and by making patrol
post OF both buildings proper attention can be
given and at tne same time tho officers De
used for other duties during the remainder OF the
DAY.
The division Of the city into TOUR inspection dis
trlcts, made at a recent meeting, was completed
yesterday by the assignment OF the Inspectors TO
their respective comman Is as fooWs:-
Inspector G. W. Dukes, First district, compr1s-
ing the FIRST Fourth, Sixth, seventh, Tenth,
Eleventh, thirteenth, Fourteenth, seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Twenty-arst and Twenty-siXth pre-
cncts and The First ana Third district court squads.
Inspector John McDermolt, Second district,
comprising the filth, Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, Twentieth and Twenth-seventh pre-
cincts and the second district court squad.
Inspector Thomas W. Thorne, Third district,
comprising the Twelfth, Fourteenth, Twenty
third Thirty-tnird and Th1rty-louGth precincts
and the Fith and sixth district court squads.
Inspector Frank @. Speight, Fourth district,
comprising the Twenty-se cond, Thlrueth, Thirty
first, Thriy-second ana Tnirty-1fth precincts.
The Chief Clerk is buslly engaged in having
pre- pared tie books, documents and other para
pm rnaha suitable for the new regime, aud II Is
thol ght taat AZ asst TWO weeks must elapse be-
fore all the preparations will be completed.