The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
$685. West 2sd Street
POWER CENTRALIZED
NEW MANUAL PUTS ALL d.
RECTLY IN BINGHAM's HANDS.

Deputies MuzzIed and Ordered Not 10
Talk or to Permit themselves to Be
Quoted-D. g. slattery Named in
Regulations rs Second In Command.
The new police manual. which was made
public yesterday and goes into effect at
1901 A. Nj. next Thursday. emphasizes
the tendency to Capitalization In the
Police Department which has been grow
ing ever since Commissioner Bingham
came into Office. Many of the ~so-called
new rules have been in force for some
time. but never have been put down in
black and white before. The most no.
ticeable thing Is the great body OF admin
istrative detail that must be reported
direct to the Commissioner
Thus, all the deputies, the Commits
sioner's secretary. the chief clerk and the
bookkeeper report directly to the Com
missioner No police officer may put
the city under any pecuniary obligation
without the written permission OF the
Police Commissioner, nor may he order
any repairs or permit the slightest vari-
alton in carrying a acquisitions with
out-his authority.
Next TO Commissioner Bingham Score
tary Slattery ranks all others in the de-
partment. The new rules define his
status as shat of a confidential staff
officer and the personal representative
of the Commissioner While he takes
instructions from Commissioner Bingham
only, he can give orders to any one, and
his orders must be obeyed first and ques-
toned later, II at all.
The deputies are muszled along with
all other members Of the force. Deputy
Police Commissioners must not talk for
publications nor be interviewed nor
make public Speeches without permits
sion of the Police Commissioner section
Q of rule 8 provides. Other rules re-
strict their responsibility and freedom
of action--so that the deputies are little
more than chief clerks. The inspectors
are held down as tightly.
The old rule against talking, which sp-
peared in the old manual. reappears in
the new, with a cracker making it apply
10 new spaper reporters. The cracker
says (rule %, section 81: IF any member
of the force is quoted in the newspapers
this shall be regarded as prima facie evil
dence Of violation Of the above rule"
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tended to the policeman on beat, who
can't stop now TO chat with ever his
friends. Neither can he take anybody
into the section room, shed his coat,
light up and start to playing pinoohle.
Friends, tobacco and. card games all
are barred from section rooms. 'In
order to prevent loafing on beat a patrol
man must call up the desk lieutenant
and get permission to Nave his beat
IL he isn't going to be gone long.
The use Of police the telephone is denied
to every one ave members OF the force.
In getting the station house the officer
will have to call Headquarters first, which
station house force to the Commissioners
movements.
Some members Of the force have been
having pretty good times In the depart
ment'. automobiles. to judge from the
following orders:
side city limits. They are not to be re-
Eerded as exclusively for the benefit
Of any one Official. Under ordinary
circumstances the legal speed limit must
not be exceeded. Ladies' must never
be taken out unless accompanied by
an oficial. authorized to use said trans
portation.'
Along with the deputies the secretary,
the bookkeeper and many other officials.
achauffeurs will be under the immediate
orders OF the Police Commissioner
The duties OF every employee Of the
department are minutsly defined down
to the hostlers. Some Of the Headquar-
rule as, which fixes the hours Of duty Of
all members OF the non-unifGrmed force
from . A. M. to Q p. H., Saturdays in
cluded.- ,
The Commissioner has been at work
on the new manual for a Q or more.
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on it. The last manual was got out
under McAdoo's administration by the
then Third Deputy Commissioner Harris
Lindsey. who was killed In an automo-
bile accident before he had finished the
work. which went TO pross In an incom-
plete shape. Besides defining the duties
policemen a little law from the Penal
Code and the city Charter. IL alao con-
tains q n which shown l0.06a men