The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-24
A CRUEL JOKE.
Those "Ru1es" Alleged to Have Been
Issued by Chief Paul.

Judging from an article which ap.
peared in the local columns of the
News last night and an editorial in the
same issue some one has perpetrateo
a cruel joke on that paper by tele-
phoning a lot of ridiculous stuff to its
editorial rooms regarding alleged in
lstrustions Just issued by the chief OF
police to his men. Locally the News
says:
ceived from police headquarters stat
| ing that instructions to the police OF
this city when on duty have been IS
sued as follows;
Must not stop on corners.
/ Must not walk in company with
any person.
swer any question when it can be
avoided
Instead of treating the rot as a joke
which if it was ever telephoned at all
| it was evidently intended for, the
News takes the matter up editorially
and treats the force to about half a
column of structures of which the fol
lowing is a sample:
1.-THE following are the orders just
issued to the uniformed police force OF
this city for their guidance when on
duty:
| Must not stop on corners.
/ Must not walk in company with any
person.
Must not talk to any person or answer
any question when it can be avoided
"Of course it may be the purpose OF
the powers that be to reduce to a
mi nimum the proportion of usefulness
in the regular police force and to bring
| the ornamental feature into promi-
he
until with the inauguration of the
new year a change of administration
brings a change in at least the head
! of each department. But in cities
where the police are a we'll directed
force and are the servants of the peo-
pie who pay them, instead of the first
order quoted the following is the in
struction given;
AT the intersection of streets the officer
and look in each direction carefully to
ascertain whether his services are called
for.
Regarding the second order, citi-
zens should be careful to give the Of
f1cer sufficient room on the sidewalk
TO obey his chief 1t is probable he
will see to it himself that he is not
caught walking in company with an
offender against the law 1t is proper
and commendable, however, to check
unnecessary conversation and COM
panionship.
CAS- to order number three it is a
matter of congratulation that it will
not be enforced for great length of
time, lest the police of Salt Lake
should gain the additional unsavory
reputation of being boorish.'
Naturally the chief of police and
other officers of the department do not
take kindly to the sentiments express
ed, especially as no such orders as are
set out have been issued, and no tele-
phone message was sent to the News
from headquarters.
Chief Paul and Captain Donovan
have repeatedly instructed the MEM
bers of the force to treat citizens and
strangers with every courtesy and re-
spect and aid them in every manner
possible. The police are expected to
answer all proper questions, civilly
but briefly. Each officer carries
book cotaining the rules Of the depart
ment and is expected to live UP to
those rules in every particular The
following are some samples of the
rules:
tOAfcers must walk their beats in a
soldierly manner, and must not. in
uniform, or While on duty enter a.
drinking saloon, gambling house or
house of ill-fame, except in the dis
charge of duty, nor stand on the
street to talk
Officers will protect pedestrians on
street crossings.
BE gentlemanly and polite at all
times.
Treat all citizens with respect-you
are public servants-and in the dis
charge of duty always avoid harsh or
impatient action.
The local man and the editor of the
News should be supplied with a set of
the department rules.