The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-04-22
N. Y. POLICE HEAD ASKS
FOR 1906 NEW PATROLMEN
Additional Police Force Essential
for Effective Dry Law
Enforcement
SPECIAL FORCE ON JOB
Extraordinary Instructions Are
Issued to Officers as to
Dry Law Cases

Police Commissioner Richard z.
Enright of New York city has re-
questcd the Board oil Estimate TO
provide an appropriation for 1000 adj
ditional patrolmen whose services
will be necessary he asserts, to en-
force the new state Prohibition law.
The Commissioner asks that an
appropriation OF 100000 be added to
the contingent fund OF the police de-
partment to cover the expense of
obtaining evidence for the enforce
mcnt OF the dry law the balance Of
1921. After a careful study OF the
new state dry law and conference
with "A police inspectors OF greater
New y DIRK city, the Commissioner an
nounced the establishment of a special
Prohibition squad of 30 detectives
under the chief Inspector and the as
signmcnt of ten additional plain
clothes men to the staff OF each in
spector.
The Commissioner said that the
order creating the first special police
machinery for Prohibition enforce
ment means the transfer OF more than
200 men from the ranks to plain
clothes duty
There are p inspection districts.
Each inspector hereafter will have IS
instead OF Is men under his personal
supervision.
Commissioner Enright is quoted in
the New York Tribune as saying:
The police department is going to
enforce the new Prohibition law lit
orally, at least until we get a definite
decision on it."
The Commissioner issued a synop-
sis OF the new laws for study by the
members OF the force. 1t is prcfaced
by the statement that the duty of
enforcing these laws within the city
OF New York is hereby imposed upon
each and every member of the police
department"
Old regulations which forbade po-
licemcn in uniform entering saloons,
directing them to observe violations
OF the excise law from outside the sa-
loon, were revoked by the Commits
sioner and patrolmen arc now III
structed to enter saloons and make
summary arrests in every case where
violation OF the dry law is brought
TO their attention.
Commanding officers arc required
to forward on the first and sixteenth
OF each month a report in duplicate
showing the number OF arrests for
violation of the liquor law in their
respective districts. together with
report OF the amount OF liquor, uten-
sis, vehicles or other convcyanccs
seized in each case and a complete
description thereof. The semi
monty report will also include state
ment giving the location of any and
every place within their respective
districts where it is suspected that
liquor is manufactured, kept or sold
in violation OF the law.
That there is to be no let-up in the
effort to close liquor selling joints is
seen i'll the concluding paragraph of
the memorandum OF the Commits
sioner which was sent to the police
department, which says:
When an alleged offender has
failed to be indicted OF convicted
in any of the counties OF greater
New York the commanding Of
fcer will Immediately notify the
United States district attorney of
the district i'll which the offcnsc
was committed of all the circum-
stances in each case.
When the first deputy police COM
missioner. John Z. Leach, was asked
if homes were to be invaded, he re-
piled: Every mans home is his cas-
tie, but it is not also his brewery"