New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-11
WALDO PRAISES NEW PLAN
Three.PIatoon System Contains
Features Hitherto UntrIed.
HALF OF FORCE ON NIGHTS
Commissioner Hurries Details
So as to Start New Order OF
Things To- morrow.

AS soon as half a dozen men with draw
ing squares and drafting boards can turn
out revised charts giving the new tours OF
duty. the police force will be put on
interpolation system unlike any scheme
tried before According 10 Commissioner
Waldo. the city will get more actual time
OF service out of the policemen, the police
men themselves will he enabled TO ENJOY
more regular hours for rest and meals ana
The administration of the department VIII
be more systematic and efficient
AT present" the Commissioner said yes
.erday each Individual patrolman is CIV
ing the city in the aggregate average onIE
seven hours and a few minutes over ser
vice dav. Under the revised schedules
ne will render eight fun hours service
The policemen themselves are anxious 10
have the change made. since II gives 'hem
more regular time for meals ana rest
and more consecutive hours home win
their families. and think the puohc VIII
he clad TO accept this added time from Tue
men
IT means that the city VIII he pe'ler
noticed in every way. An important point
10 notice Is that the greater numoer oI
men will be on duty just at the time we"
thew are needed. During the day one
fourth of the force will he on du'E' anu
during the night. when more men are
needed for emergencies or hreS' one-"'ii VI
the men will be on duty.
In Effect Early Tomorrow.
committee Of men representing all
~a.Le NJ the force mas peen assisting inc
Commissioner 10 work out the detaHs Vi
80 ,1ar for over a week. and they expect
~ he able 10 nut the system hnally agreed
,,non i'm operation Monday morning AT
oclock This committee consisted oi MI
Dillon Fourth Deputy Commissioner 'dp-
t.i, Cohen. the expert statstlclah ol NV
dsrartrert: Lieutenant Richard Enrlgh''
Ia, ., the Police LieutendntS
pkravolen, Association; Sergeant John f.
Milan president Of the Sergeants ASso'io
ION and Patrolmen John Ruddy. president
and Peter J. McEntee. executive commute
rosnober. Of the Patrolmen BeheNoleH'
Association. ,.a.a
1-uder the system worked out nv THESE
NON the dav will he divided INTO '"'ee
- .iebt-bour tours. The individual poiicel"'"
,,iu he on duty on patrol and reserve s'N
g., bo,,s once in every three daNs' anu
- ,uo DAYS in three he will do patroi dul!
cor ipbt hours and have sixteen houiS oi''
once each week he viii have a thlrtN-'"o
hour stretch of. -.,
rhe rotation of these PERIODS Il an
60 that there will Re larger reserve io''o
in the day than under the present nv
nla,oon system. but larger actlNe loi
q, nicht as the Commissioner i ol ,iie
cninion that the exigencies OF pohcihs the
civ require the division Of the force.
Half Of Force on at Night.
.rha er.t tour hereafter begins AZ a III.
"a rms iii q m. The second tour ~
Gins a, and contiges until II CLOCK az
riob, and the third tour heeinS ~ ,'lS
hour and ends AT O'Clock in the mon
During this latter periN1 the ruiz one
NJ the force will he out The present p'9'
in every rrecinCt viii ba chanseo' ou' ''
r,4cinct boundaries will remain the same
,rotber innovation which the Comrnis-
eioner is having worked out IN oetai u
what viii he called stationary posts d"
idea taken from TIE LONDON PoiiOe,
Tbroughout the precincts pohcenen w"
he stationed al certhin points. when 'heS
are not 10 leave EXCEPT wnen calIed away
IN response - some emergency. lhlS IL
expected to do away with the complaint
that ..vou can't e%er find cop when you
,rao, him" as Che residents of a secuon
are expected to become familiar with the
stations of the ''stand-still cops
u is not intended to put this INTO enec'
for several days. until the confusion at
,endant uuon the change from the nVe u
the three platoon system has blown over
The working out Of the changes was
prohler7 that puzzled those in charee oi
TIE revision IF the charts and mace neoe
sarv the rejection Of many tenta'iNe
echeduIes commissioner Waldo sara yes
,erday that he expected 10 be able 10 az
rrove the last drafts by O'Clock III 'ne
afternoon. when they would be immenla'e
l., cent 70 the department printers ana
r.sted through II was the intention 10
emily, the new plan 70 every rank IN tne
asr,rert beginning Monday morning
,ttb the first tour. at o'clock. hut the
cororoissioner expressed his doubts as 10
ube,her the schedules for se1geantS anu
x.utenarts would be completed
TIL. 23d precinct comprising 'en'd'
Park. the 173d precinct. comprising froS-
rect Park. Brooklyn; the Bridge. tran'c
srA barbor squads are NOT affected by the
Yeu, svster,. but may he taken in later.