Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-13
POLICE WILL UNITY
/. RUM AND VICE RAID
OPERATIONS IN CITY
Special Detail of 20 Men Will
Start Work Monday Under
Inspector Bean.
CLOSER COORDINATION
IN ACTIVITY IS SOUGHT
Friction Between Separate Units
Carrying Out Drive Is to
Be Eliminated.

Beginning Monday morning, a COM
plete reorganization of police activities
concerning the prosecution Of VIOLA
tons of all laws relating to liquor, gam
bling and vice will take place. Inspector
Thaddeus r. Bean will head a new
force, made up Of q consolidation of ali
policemen now engaged In these spe-
cialized activities. supplemented by
others.
He will have under him q force of
% men, forming a special headquar-
tiers detail and reporting directly to him
The rum squad and the vice squad, as
such, are abolished and consolidated
into the new unit, all of the personnel
Of each being taken along. The new
squad will operate out of police head
quarters and will have an office on the
third floor of the new police headquar-
tiers building.
In explaining his order today, Mai.
Henry @. Pratt, superintendent of po-
lice, said that the work had been con-
solidated in an effort to have closer CO.
ordination among the various details in
the Police Department assigned to the
class of work outlined and also better
cooperation with the Federal forces
engaged in liquor law enforcement with
IN the boundaries Of the District.
Have Operated Separately.
Hitherto the forces have operated
separately and occasionally at cross
purposes. This friction is expected to
be eliminated by having the entire work
carried on through one inspector, to
whom all members of the new con-
solidated force will report.
In the order setting up the new
force Maj. Pratt took pains to point
out that this must in nowise be regard
ed as relieving any precinct commander
or his command from the responsibility
OF maintaining a close and effective
surveillance and securing and forward
ing information of conditions in their
the liquor, gambling and vice laws and
regulations, but win be construed only
as relieving them from the necessity of
conducting the intensive investigation
essential in these cases, all action on
such information to be taken by the
special detail
Maj. Pratt said that one of the prin-
cipal benefits he expected the new plan
to yield would be that cases would be
better presented in court, with more
chance Of conviction where the facts
warrant.
Personnel Of New Squad.
The personnel of the new squad is
as follows:
Sergt. George M. Little, Traffic
Bureau, former head of the rum squad !;
Sergt. j. r. Leach former head of the
vice squad, and the following privateS:
George G. Deyoe, Traffic Bureau; r. T.
Joiner, TRAFFIC Bureau; r. Schleichert,
No. 8; j. K. Baker, No. IL: T. 0. Mont
gomery, Traffic Bureau; G. c. McCar-
ron, No. 6; F. A. Truscott, No. 4: F. o.
Brass, No. 8; Joseph De Palma, No. IA;
E. r. Lewis, No. 10; Thomas McVearry,
No. 5; w. s. Smoot, No. 10; z. c..
OMeara, No. 6; E. L. Shelton, No. q;
N. @. Thayer, No. 4; G. e. Thornton,
No. o; H. G. Wanamaker, No. /; G. H.
Warder, No. IL; r. A. Williams, No. 8;
w. r. Wrenn, No. z.
With the order went an order to
precinct detectives to devote their entire
time and attention in the future to in
veStigations, and to the proper pre-
sentation in court of such general po-
lice matters as may be referred to them
for action by their respective command
ing Officers, or from headquarters.
Bean to Direct All Work.
4hCy WC1C tOlQ tkldb uObkllIlB III Tile
order should be construed as preventing
them from taking action with respect to
such violations of liquor, gambling and
vice laws, as happened to come to their
personal :ttention. However, If such
action Is taken, they are ordered to
promptly report it to Inspector Bean.
Bean is instructed to see that evidence
secured by the new detail in the cases
under its jurisdiction is properly pre-
pared and properly presented to the
various district attorneys and corpora
ton counsels to act as prosecuting
officers. He Is admonished to establish
and maintain a close, intimate contact
with such prosecuting officers in order
that such instructions as may be given
by the prosecutors or the courts from
time to time as to the necessary evil
dence and the manner of presenting it
shall be carefully observed, so that only
bona fide cases may be presented and
their prosecution sustained.
The order winds up with a statement
that the order must not be taken by
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