Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-16
.SHAKE-UP POLICE
FORCE NOW PLAN
Higher-ups Slated to Go; De-
tectives and Patrolmen,
Too, Officials Intimate.
MANY SEEK JOBS ON FORCE
Correspondence Schools for
Man-Hunters Well Repre-
sented by Applicants.

There is to be a new order OF things
In the pollce department New faces
are TO bc seen among the patrolman
force. Experienced detectives are t.
nave charge of the plainclothcs
branch OF the police work. Tho
change may extend even higher. or
ders may he issued In the future 10y
executives who know the police busi-
ness
This was tho intimation gained yes-
tcidav from the action uf the special
committee rcccntlY appointed 10y the
-Retail Merchants association to CO.
operate with the city officials In rais-
ing the standards and efficiency OF
the Tulsa police department. when It
gave lengthy consideration and their
approval of the application of former
members of the department FOR rein
statement on the force.
While no definite announcement
would be made bV any Of the commit
tee members relative to the action
they had taken. II was known that
scores Of applicants had asked for APP
puintmcnts on the force. and that
from this number but few had been
given consideration, and that these
were men with practical experience
| IN the work.
The applicants who sought places
on. the department ranged from
schoolboys to dime novel detectives.
according to one member OF the COM
Inittce.
From Rising sun school.
This represcntative Of the Retailers
association declared that At least Il
dOser Of those who sought appoint
mcuts had seen. so they said, eNpe-
rlence as criminal catchers on the
d lu. Ff1Ia Nfgg at
try. As many were graduates Of cor
| rcspond.nce detective schols, and were
| willing to produce their diplomas to
| back up their claims of Icing tull.
| flcdgod detectives. Others displaNe
| .argc stars which had been procured
! by securing club members To dctectlNe
magaines.
From this host of applications the
spccial committee will make its recon
mendations of ten men who Will be
approVed as members of the depart
ment by Commissioner Funk, police
commissioner, as he promised Thurs
day.
il also became known yesterday that
some difference had developed as 10
one of executives in the police de-
partment who would have a great deal
To do with heading the inNigorated
department as 1t Will he constituted
after the new men are placed on the
force.
Patrolmcn To Patrol.
The payroll as presented to the city
commissioners yesterday for their ap-
provnl included the names of several
members of the department designated
as patrolmen, but who have been
| working from fhc office as plain
clothes men, or detectives. 1t was de-
clared by one of the members OF IN.
retailers committee that an effort
would be made To place all OF the
patrolmen on beats, and have theH
uniformed as patrolmcn.
III you are going To- have de
tectiVe, get a real one was the eN'
preston of one of the members o
the retailers committee. land If yot
are going to designate an officer as q
patrolman and pay him as such. ther
nut him out on beat where he cal
do a patrolman's work.
Townsend or Page.
Whether this statement had refer
encc to II. H. Townsend and George
Page was not divulged by this mer
chant For several months Townsen'
has been working out of the office a
a plainclothes man and has borne, II
some quarters. the title of assistant Il
the chief. Page is on the books al
a patrolman and receives patrol
mans salary. but has done nothin!
but plainclothes work since his affilia
ton with the department.
one of the applicants for a place
on the department yesterday wa
formerly member of the detectiv
department He was dismissed sooi
after Townsend was placed In chic
Lucas office, because. the chief said
the funds of the department did no
warrant detective force such as wa
being maintained. Page was put ol
the force "A short time afterward.