The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-08
FAVORS NEW RULE
IN POLICE FORCE
Sheriff Jarrett Makes Emphatic
Statements Regarding
Reorganization.

A police force altogether out of poll
tics, regulated by police commission,
appointed by the mayor and superin.
tended and directed by chief of po.
lice appointed by the commission, is
the ambition of Sheriff Jarrett. In an
interview last night, he came out EN-.
phatically for such an arrangement, ad.
vocating still further, as he has done
IN the past, civil service basis and a
merit system of promotion.
"That is the only way the police can
be efficiently managed,' said Sheriff
Jarrett "Politics continually hamper
the administration of the police now
and should be done away with. Under
present conditions several men have al.
ways got to be kept on that can be
depended upon whether they are the
best suited for the Job or not.
"If there was a civil service basis
such as / wanted the last legislature to
give me there would be no such thing
as that. No committee could antici
pate the appointment of an efficient
man by advancing man who was moi
efficient except in politics.
Police Commission.
"I believe the police commission
should be appointed by the mayor and
should serve without salary. / believe
Mayor Fern could pick out commits
sion from the point of efficiency and
would do so. Men like Jack Dowsett
and others-who better could be found
And I think Fern would appoint just
such men. He has shown that he ear
both give and receive. He has never
been given much of an opportunity tc
show what he can do under such cir
cumstances. ! think any mayor, who
ever he happened to be, should appoint
the commission.
'The chief of police should be ap
pointed by the commission and appoint
all his officers on the merit system and
through promotion. / believe the de
putty sheriffs should be appointed and
not elected as they are on this island
and on none of the other Islands.
Pension System.
"a pension system is needed badly
The foot men, for instance, get sevent,
dollars month and the captains
hundred and ten. The former should
get $3.50 and the captains $1l5, eacl
to draw down the same as before ant
the balance to go into a sinking funt
out of which old age pensions could b,
drawn and also disability pensions. /.
the chief or any of his men went ou
on shooting scrap and got shot them
selves they would have no come bacl
at all Take Waipa, for instance. Th
old man has been on the force for al
of thirty years, and / still keep hin
on because he can sure find people tina
you send him after, but he ought /
be pensioned off.
"Some more legislation by the Tel
ritory and city is also badly needed
The police should be given the powe
to make regulations for governing traj
fic on the streets, in the same way n
the board of health can make reeulf
tions regarding sanitary matters. w
have no authority over the hackme
now who may be moving off thei
stands and we only lose our cases whe
We arrest them.
There ought TO be a law compellin
all hospitals or doctors to report a,
eldents or suspicious cases at once.
think there may be such law on tb
books now but have never located i
Several recent cases have shown III
absolute need for such a law, one q
them not more than a week ago whe
Japanese died in the Japanese Ho
pltal from bite on the thumb and "
did not hear about it until sever;
weeks afterwards. All these laws al
in effect in other cities. Why shouldn
we have Them.