New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-16
700 Detectives in Drive to
Arrest known Crimi-
mails and Hold Them on
Some Kind of Charge
New Orders Add
1000 to Force
Police Parade Postponed;
Enright Puts RESPONSE
bility on Rank and File


CRIME situation from his own shoulders
and places it squarely upon the rank
and file of his department.
Yesterdays official announcements.
coupled with those of the dav previous.
create situation in the Police Depart
ment which has rot been parallcled in
recent years.
Drills for the police parade were
suspended. The date for the parade
itself was postponed week, with the
unofficial intimation that unless the
outbreak of crime subsidized it might
be abandoned altogether for this year.
Every man on vacation was recalled
forthwith last night
CleanUp of Crooks Ordered
At the same time Chief INSPECTOR
Lahey at conference with captains of
detective divisions ordered a general
cleanup of all known crooks. Men
with police records are to be arrested
on sight, searched for weapons and
held for trial on whatever charge can
be made against them.
The effect of the onerous task now
laid upon the patrolmen and detectives
IS to add approximately 1000 men to
the active patrol force of the city,
All vacation leaves of absence are
cancelled, the half-hour lunch period
for men on patrol duty is abolished
rehearsals for the Police Band and the
Glee Club are suspended until further
NOT Hnt,r c
the softcst jobs the department offers
for the patrolman, rs temporarily
bandoned, and patrolmen are required
to do two hours extra patrol when off
duty, this tour to be performed in the
precincts in which they live. These
emergency measures are in addition to
the extra sidewalk duty to be per-
formed by detectives and the closer at
tention to their jobs required from
captains, inspectors and deputy inspec-
tors.
Inspectors On Plain Clothes Duty
Captains and inspectors will Go
plain-clothes duty, patrolling their
precincts for several hours daily as
part of the new program. All mem
bers of the force from lieutenants
down will wear their uniforms dur
homes. They have been asked to be
accessible at any time of the day or
night. Members of the welfare squad
were also ordered to don their uni
forms. Reserve duty for regular
patrolmen virtually has been aboi-
ished under the new orders. Traffic
policemen will do auto patrol duty for
several hours DAY after they finish
their regular work.
Dozens of speedy automobiles have
been borrowed by the police depart
ment from wealthy citizens and busi-
ness men to meet the emergency. In
services of their chaufeurs and in
some instances have agreed to drive
the automobile themselves.
Broadway from the Thirties north
ward was we'll guarded street last
night. Uniformed and plain clothes
men were thick in every block and on
the alert for bandits who might attempt
to take advantage of an extraordinarily
busy Saturday night, due to the pres
ence Of Easter shoppers. Night banks
along Broadway were under heavy
guard.
Reports to precincts and to Police
Headquarters by telephone and box
were made hourly by the augmented
pdJTOI.
700 Detectives Put on Hunt
The orders issued by Chief 1nspec-
tor Lahey were brief and drastic. They
call for an immediate mobilization of
the seven hundred detectives on duty
In the various precincts in a concert
ed movemen against al! profes sional
crooks. The poolrooms, cafes and sa-
looms where men with jail records are
known to foregather are to be visited
repeatedly, and wherever criminal
known to the police is found he is to
be arrested on the spot and charged
with whatever offence comes handiest,
the matter being left to the discretion
of the detectives making the arrest
Former offenders who can show def
mite proof of a present honest occupa-
ton are not to be molested, the Chief
Inspector said, but all other crooks
are under the ban.
The professed object of this gigantic
roundup is to convince professional
lawbreakers that New York City is an
unhealthy place for a man to live who
is on the Police Departments books
as an old offender. The crooked citi-
zens are to be driven from the city.
Three parts of the Supreme Court
and six parts Of General Sessions will
begin on Monday to try burglary, rob-
berry, assault and homicide cases, and
before the end of the week two other
parts of General Sessions Court will
be turned over to such trials. Eleven
parts of the higher trial courts will
be in session at the same time, trying
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