The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-01
TRAFFIC SQUAD REVOLUTION.
FORCE REDUCED ny 81 MEN
" HOLESALE TRANSFERS.
sIrOokIyn TraHic headquarters wiped out
N Deputy OEecTe Takes Hold
-IiE NhAkeup Expected In the Ten.
derIoln- More SOFT snaps Abolished.

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derIoin- More SOFT snaps Abolished.
Police Commissioner Bingham continued
yesterday the work Of abolishing easy
berths In tho department.
Some important changes we're announced
in the trafic squad. Upon recommended
ton Of inspector Flood, who has charge Of
II, thitty-four mounted men and ak foot
men doing duty In Manhattan we're re-
manded TO precinct work. The mounted
men were all cent 20 The Bronx. The
places Of these officers will be taken by
foot men attached to the precincts IN which
the crossings they guard are. Seventeen
foot men will do the work which was done
by the thlrty-four mounted men. Tho
latter worked In two shifts Of five hours
each OF theso stationary" posts. The
foot men will be on duty ten hours each.
TIL Forty-ninth sub-preOlnct In Brook
lyn, which was the headquarters Of tho
trafio squad In that borough, was abolished
and the squad was put under direct super
vision Of Second Deputy Commissioner
o'Keefe. Yesterday Mr., O'Keerc decided
that the foroe doing traAio duty In Fulton
street and In the vicinity Of Borough
Hall was topheavy and he ordered thirty
six mounted men, including flyo s~eTgeants,
TO patrol duty In outlying districts. The
order also took twenty-cight foot men
from the traffic squad and assigned them
10 downtown precincts. Twelve mounted
men will regulate traffic In tho shopping
district Of Brooklyn hereafter.
Sergt. John Murphy OF tho traflo
squad was dismounted by order Of Com
missioner Bingham and sent 10 dosk duty
In the Carlton avenue station, Brooklyn,
SergS. Daniel Mccarthy Of tho same
squad was also dLsmounted and sent 10 tho
Leo went station In Brooklyn,
Commissioner Bingham took yoator.
day three men from tho Bellevue Hospital
squad, five from tho boiler inspection squad
and three detailed TO tho bureau of supplies
and repairs at Headquarters and put them
on the street. lilo also made several trans.
fers In the Mulberry street building, In.
Guiding old deorgo Hoporoft. who wM
sent from the chief inspectors Office "a
duty under tho complaint olork.
HoporOft has boon In Mulberry street
for over forty years. He waA originally
a policeman doing patrol duty, but resigned
TO aOoept a clorhHhip under tho Chief u
Polios. Policeman Isaac Albert was also
sent from tho First Deputy Commissioners
ofioo TO duty undor tho complaint olerk,
and two patrolmen who had boon working
under the latter wefo ordered 10 precinct
work.
Gen. bingham, II IL reported, has been
Keeping n Gloss watch on the Tendcrloin
precinct aud N far from aatlsfed, On TiiOss
day four ~HergeantB were transferred from
that precinct. This, II " said, IL merely
preliminary 10 a general shakeup In tho
West Thlftieth street station house. Many
VI the mel attached 10 tho precinct have
leon doing duty ihoro for years and thoy
are said 10 be altogether too friendly with
disorderly house kooporp and Other law.
breakers. A general shifting around Of
patrolmen aud plain clothes mon ~ looked
for, Gen, Bingham refused 20 talk about
tho mAttar yesterday,