The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
He Orders That They Be Ar
rested on Sight.
ALL CITY DETECTIVES
Will Report at Headquarters
Each Day
Where Rogues Are Imprisoned
to Look Them Over.

New York, Feb. 16.-Police Chief Dew
cry issued an important general order
to the force yesterday.
Beginning with Thursday, all the pre-
cinct detectives in the five boroughs, as
well as the members of the detective
squad in Brooklyn, are to assemble at
police headquarters in Mulberry street,
at o'clock every morning, and all
thieves and suspicious persons arrested
anywhere in New York are to be taken
to police headquarters, where the de-
tectives will be given an opportunity to
look at them.
The order says:
1.-THE particular duty of the members
of the force assigned to detective work
IS to investigate complaints of burglar
les, arson, assaults, etc, received in
station houses, and to take such action
regarding cases of that kind as circum-
stances may require; and, further, to
protect citizens from depredations of
thieves, pickpOcketS and other similar
offenders against law. AT this season of
the year the criminal population of the
city is usually greatest, and certain
conditions incident to the season make
them more active than usual.
THE crowded state of elevated sta
lions and trains, suburban trains, sur
face cars, steamboat landings, ferries,
good opportunity to ply their calling,
and at the same time calls for unusual
activity on the part of the police to
prevent depredations of the kind in
question and to protect citizens from
loss by theft, etc.
CROOKS" MUST GO.
professional crooks of all kinds and
classes must be driven from the city.
Detectives, both those belonging to the
detective bureau and those belonging to
precincts, as we'll patrolmen on post,
must arrest them on sight, and keep
on arresting them until they are sent to
driven from .
In all cases where arrests are made
during the day for felonies, such as
burglary, larceny, picking pockets. etc.
the prisoners will be confronted with
the members of the command of the
precinct in which the arrest is made, to
the end that the patrolmen on patrol
will see them and become familiar with
their faces, so that the officers may ar
rest them wherever and whenever they
find them.
In addition to this, such prisoners
must be brought every morning to the
detective bureau, Borough of Manhat-
tan, at o'clock, where the detectives of
all precincts, including the detective bu-
reau of the Borough Of Brooklyn, will
be on hand at that hour for the pur-
pose of looking over prisoners arrested
for these offenses, in order that their
faces may become familiar to the of
f1cers, and that they may be at once
of the city they may appear to ply their
calling"
NICE JOURNEY FOR SOME.
There are about 200 detectives outside
of the regular staff of Capt. McCIuskey,
many of whom will come from the out
skirts of Brooklyn and Staten Island,
Rockaway Beach, Far Rockaway and
Coney Island. 1t will not be a pleasant
task for them to make this early morn
ing journey to the city.
Il am determined" said Chief Dew
cry, Ito drive all crooks that may be
at large in the city out of town or send
them to prison. / think it is a, good
plan to show up those arrested to the
detectives of the force. Many of the
officers in the outlying districts do not
know the crooks, for the reason that
they have no opportunity of seeing
them. My order is intended to bring
the detectives together every morning
so that they may see all the crooks that
may be arrested from day to day.
think the plan will have a wholesome
effect and that it will greatly benefit
the police work.