The evening world., 1914-07-21
Join in Novel Campaign. on
Weary Willies, Thugs and
Thieves in Bergen.
INTERLOCKING POLICE.
Centres to Be Arranged for
Quick COMMUNICATION
Women to Aid the Work.

Tho "nghting Mayors OF the East.
ern Bergen County Improvement As
ISOLATION during a iull in their con.
tests with tho Hackensack Water
Company for better service and lower
rates and with the Public Service
Corporation for a three cent fare on
the Fort Leo Ferry are dsvotins the
summer to the work OF Kidding Der.
gen County OF housebreakers. hoboes.
highwaymen and Post Office robbers
They contemplate tho organisation of
an interiockins police systor, or
County Constabulary which they hope
will eventually include every COM
munity In Bergen County. from the
cities OF Hackensack and EnElewood
to tho smallest borough
The plan was. evolved by Sheriff
Robert w. Heath. but tho Eastern
Bergen Association has undertaken
to put II into effect. The committee
which has tho matter In charge
composed Of Mayor Osmers Of Ha-
worth. Mayor Mailer OF Alpine.
Mayor Neumann OF Clirside. Mayor
Huyler Of Tenafy and Mayor Bryant
OF Palisades Park--wili hold a confer.
encs with Sheriff Heath on Thursday
evening and mako plans for putting
the machinery In motion. :.
The plan consemplAtes the organ
ization Of police centres through
which quick communication can DO
established with outlying or inade-
Quately policed country roads and VII
lagos. These police centres will DO in
communities where motor cycle or
bicycle policeman 10 airendy main
tained. or where such peace officers
may be hereafter appointed and
equipped. Thus Fort Lee. Englswood,
Hackensack. Ridgewood and several
other communities would be the police
centres In their respective Shbor-
hoods. and q system OF quick tsle-
phonic communication between them
and neighboring small borouKhs
would be established. !sr
II help we're needed in any q them
= message to the police centrp OF any
neighborhood would bring quick re-
lief. Sheriff Heath. In discussing the
matter. said that two Of the most
notable captures ever made In Bergen
County were brought about by a
woman who saw the two men near
her home acting in q way that aroused
her suspicionsA She was q woman OF
quick wit. Sho phoned-to Ridgewood.
tho town nearest her own. Ten min
utes later q bicycle policeman stole up
behind the two men. drew his revolver
and marched them to the Ridgewood
police station. They are now In State
prison. having been convicted of COM
hitting burglary In another part Of
Bergen County.
With these police centres estab-
lished II Ii proposed that each COM
munity In Bergen County shall send
one Of Its policemen or local marshals
to Hackensack once month. where
they will be instructed a. to their
powers and duties by County Judge
seufert, Prosecutor Wright and
sheriff Heath. In most cases the
present power of the local police In
confined to the borough In which
they are appointed. They have no
power beyond their borough lines.
But It 10 Sheriff Heath's intention to
appoint each Of these specially In
structed men as q Special deputy
sheriff. and thus each will be clothed
with full authority to act In any part
Of the county.
Under this system the Sheriff would
have a specially drilled force Of 6b
special deputies upon whom he could
call In case OF riot In any part OF the
county. They would be picked men
on whom he could depend. 1t would
thus obviate a difficulty with which
he met two years ago In suppressing
the labor riots at Shadyside In which
several man were killed. Not having
q specially drilled force he had to
pick UP any men he could get, and In
some instances Il was reported the
deputies gave him nearly a. much
trouble a. the rioters themselves.
With sixty-five deputies ready for his
call there would 6s no such difiioulty
In the future.
After the systsm II organised the
women OF Bergen County will,
through their various organizations
and leagues. be schooied In how to
call for help or to give warning OF
the business Of suspicious characters.
In that way the women all over the
county will soon come to know Just
what police centre to call. and they
will eventually become active agents
In Kidding Bergen OF undesirable
characters.