The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-24
CHANGES REQUIRED
IN POLICE STATION
Old Building Has About Outlived Its Usefulness.
Suitable Quarters For Officers Necessary.-Con-
gregational Church in Pawtucket to Erect New
Chapel.

when the police department nrst took
up is home al the present station no
doubt IL was fully large enough 20 tv-
cemmodate that department. Without "a
doubt there was no crowding Tor quite q
geod many years. hut PaWtucket has
been growing all these years since thehi
The police force has also been growing,
and there are many who believe that u
ought 60 be larger stil. With this growth
has come a demand for larger quarters,
This demand has been met at different
times hy changes which have been made
In the interior OF the building. Then toe,
there has been an addition placed on the
rear, FOR the accommodation OF the horses
and the wagons of the department. But
IL can be said that for a number OF years
the station has failed most miserably 10
fiji the bill
During the present week there has been
added 20 the department two new officials
and IL can be said without the slightest
strain on the truth. that there IS no
place within the building for their accom-
mediation.
For those who arc unacauainted with
the interior OF the station IL may be said
that the rooms consist of the cell room,
the guard room for the accommodation OF
the patrolmen, the rooms for the matron,
the room for the reception of the public
who have business with the department
sign bearing the words "Chief of Police
This latter room is so placed that IL is
practically impossible 10 have any privacy
and just how the officers arc 10 he ac-
commodated hereafter IL is difficult to
see.
what is needed is an office for tho
chief which might also be used by the
deputy chief although If the two officials
are 10 be retained IN the future they each
should nave separate offices The new
clerk of police should most certainly have
office. entirely separated from the
other officers of the department but ad- !
joining that occupied by the chief and
the deputy chief. Then, too. there should |
be a room for the use OF the captain and \
lieutenant OF police In addition TO this /
there is another officer, whise duties dur
Ing the past two or three years have be- /
come most important. who ought to be |
given an office entirely removed from
the rest Of the department and that is the
probation officer. Mr. Maymon has i'm
some ways more people calling on him
every day than any other officer connect
ed with the department. and yet there is
not a room i'm the station which he can
call his own. Every day he Is In Consulta-
ton with women and children Of all ages
and these people are forced 10 do their
business in the large room devoted to tho
reception of the public. where they arc
III who come TO the station. The pccu-
lar nature OF the services which Proba-
ion Officer Maymon il doing. demands
hat IL be done where the general public
, not admitted. 5
There is still another officer of the force {
Who should have room TO himself | /
where he can be free from the prying
yves OF those who should have no busi-
ness with his affairs and that Is the sta
ton detective. Pawtucket has, had "A de-
fective attached 10 its force for quite a
ong time and yet hc has really had no
special place he could call his own, OK
cept little room on the second floor,
which Is reached by going through tho
office OF the clerk Of the district court
This latter office is very frequently filled
With lawyers. who arc doing business
there and consequently there IL no pri-
vacy of any kind
What is needed badly is an addition to
the present building. 1t could De placed
ON the eastern end OF the structure and
built out over the stables. Within this
could be placed tho rooms for the matron
and perhaps the office for the clork OF the
courts. This would cause the present Of
ice 10 be vacated and IL could be given
up 10 the use (of the probation officer, tho !
small room leading off OF Il being used
as his private consultation room.
In the new addition should be placed
inc quarters Tor the police matron and tho
detention room and this section
being removed from the street would
be much moro suitable for such pur-
pose than the quarters now In use.
BY this change il would be possible To |
utilize tho section OF the building on the !
ground floor TO the left OF the main en-
trance, for the chief and the deputy
chief. as well as tho clerk OF police and
there is room enough there for the accom-
modation OF all OF those officials In the
changes IL would also be quite easy TO
provide suitable quarters for the police
detective and by removing these from the
rooms now occupied by the officials. there
would be plenty OF room for the captain
and lieutenant with each officer having
I desk for himself.
II has been said IN these colurrns more
IAN once, that there is need fer better
discipline In the police department ami il |
mas also been said at all times, that the
lack OF II was not TO be laid at the door
VI the officials who have been placed I'm