The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-05
ERINTENDENT TO MAKE CHANCE.
 IN COPS SHIFTS
Will Advance Time of Re porting One Hour Begin
 ming Tomorrow.

Announcing several changes in the routine of the police department, su- perintendent J. H. Redgate today l that three of the shifts of policemen will be advanced an hour while the fourth shift will be advanced two hours. Platoon A will report at a. m. and will go off at p. m.; Platoon B, 3 D. m. to Il p. n.; Platoon c, 6 p. m. to a. m., and Platoon D., Il p. m. to 9. m.
 Eighteen men will comprise a p1a- toon in each precinct so that from 6 o'clock in the afternoon until 2 o'clock in the morning the streets will be pa tro1ledl by twice the number of men usually on the streets. This platoon has been going on duty at p. m. and reporting off at a. m.
 With the assignment of the new men to the detective bureau, the su- perintendent has in consideration the to the various precincts so that the detectives can be detailed to cases in the West and East ends of the city without having the case reported first at headquarters. It may also be ar ranged that a detective will be on duty all night instead of until mid night as at present.
 Another innovation to be introduced will be the detailing of the men on the posts where there are schools, to do school traffic duty during the time the children are going and coming from school It is believed that with po- licemen on hand much mischief and accidents will be prevented.
 The men who. have been selected for the detective and traffic duty will re- jort at 8 o'clock Atornorrow morning at the superintendent's office where they Will receive their instructions. The traffic men will do duty from 8 a. m to p. m. and the officer in charge will arrange for their reliefs and dinner hours They are to be permanent traffic policemen and will be stationed at the busy intersecting streets The nine policemen who have been
 detailed to the detective bureau are all older members of the department and none of the TO recently appointed will do detective duty. The eight who have been selected are F. M. Hol- brook, T. F. Malone, J. J. Flynn, George Washburn, J. J. Seery, J. Gerrity, J. F. Curry, F. L. Feeley and Martin Kane Acting Detective Luke G. Petruschel will be detailed to cover beat tomorrow.
 Regulation of the work of the traf fife squad has been left in charge of Lieut.. Charles 4. Wheeler and he will have the following policemen on the traffic squad: w. R. Wolff, Ed ward Cassidy, Carl Henke1 Terry Rogers, Thomas zehnder, P./J Cor rigan, Edward Cole, John Ryan, D. J. Sullivan, T. J. Griffin, Patrick Flanagan, J. H. Mcbride, P. F. Bo- land and Martin J. Kelly. Robert Hoffman will succeed J. J. Gerrity as a member of the motorcycle squad A change that the new superintend- ent has announced makes the captains responsible for their precincts. All requests from saloon keepers for per mission to do repair work on Sunday are to be made to the captains and the captains will also have charge of the detailing of the men in their precincts.
 Beats will be assigned the 70 new policemen tomorrow when the detail goes into effect. Since last Thursday they have been covering beats with older policemen. They have, been warned that they are not to smoke on the street or in public while in uni form, whether on or off duty