The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-03
Lack Power To Work WhinSOn
 Uniform Force
Police Commissioners Have No Author ity Over Cops Acting Under Orders of An Inn mediate Superior-Copes of Rules Are Scarce.

Copies of the rules and reguIa-
 uons of the police department
 are scarce. None could be found
 in police headquarters today.
 A former police commissioner
 had copy. Some police officials
 said they had copies at home, or
 elsewhere, but none eXicted at the
 point where they might be the
 most useful, that is, none were
 found in police headquarters.
 The rules are guarded from Ordi-
 crct society.
 Police commissioners wandering about the city have authority over po- lice officers where their orders do not conflict with the officers immediate superior's orders, President Philo Calhoun of the police board said to- day In answer to a question as to what section of the police Regulations or charter give auth ority to police com missioners wandering around, the queS- ton having direct bearing on the case of the transfer of Traffic Officer Rod erick Ludwig following complaint of Police Commissioner Ryan.
 There is such a section but I can't refer to it off-han1. When an order given by a police commissioner to a policeman does not conflict with an order given by the officers immediate superior, then it must be obeyed," MT. Calhoun said
 No Individual Authority.
 Has each individual police com missioner had delegated to him the authority that is invested in the Police board as a whole?" was the next question asked Commissioner Calhoun.
 "No," he said.
 The Police department is. however semi-nilitary. President Calhoun de- clared, and as such police officers are compelled under penalty to obey the orders of their superiors and are further compelled to salute their SUI periors.
 "Under what section of the police regulations or rules makes the police department semi-mil.t tary as distinct from other uniformed organizati ons such as f1remen and letter carriers? ?'' was another question asked Commis- sioner Calhoun.
 section it is, but there is such a sec tion,' he said in reply. The Police department iss emi-military."
 Ryan To Reply.
 President Calhoun indicated that within a day or two, Commissioner Ryan would issue a statement de- lending his action and his complaint in the Ludwig affair. At this time be silent on the question and any questions or statements relative to the affair which Presid dent Calhoun considers one of routine police dis cipline" will have to come from him as president of the board.
 An agreement has been made, it was learned today, among the board mmbers that nothing would be said about the affair only what Commis- sioner Calhoun after conference with other members cared to say.
 Commissioner Calhoun is not wor- rying about the resolution which Al~ derman John W Hibbert plans to introduce into Mondays meeting of the Common Council He would not discuss it further to say, We have always assumed that the police board was supreme"
 A police board meeting called es- fair will be called within a.. few days it was indicated today by the president of the board.
 BottomIess Bag.
 'Ifibbert reminds me of a. man standing in the council chamber hold in ga bag without a botom," Alder mar R. Arthur Brown Republican of the Twelfth district, declared today in statement in which he said that Alderman Hibbert's resolution asking Ryan would find little support in the council Monday night from him or any other council member
 Alderman Hilbert. who is seeking in the Fourth district, is making a grandstand play for votes,' as was sai dtoday, but this he stoutIy denies
 Regardless of the merits of his res- olution, the Common council is said Q be poWerlesss in a matter of this kind and has not the power of re- rlova1 of the police commissioners
 Not First Time. Democratic aldermen are rallying to the support of Dr. Ryan, who was They say that regardless of the right or wrong of Dr. Ryan's actions the move made by Hilbert is a political
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