Evening star., 1951-09-28
Y
Police Budget
Asks Full Force
Of $500 Men
$lo,6oe, 900 Sought;
Fire Department Puts
Needs at $5,552,5 500

Fire Department Puts
Needs at $5,552, 500
The Metropolitan Police De.
partment seeks 2l3 new members
In q proposed budget of $40, 500,
900 for the fiscal year 1858, ans
requests an additional SIS, 100 il
anticipation Of Inauguration ex,
penseS that year.
The Commissioners today alst
made public the estimates Of tn,
District Fire Department for tn.
year beginning next July /, total
ing $5,552 500. That department
hopes to build two new fire houses
The police estimates, not count,
ing the special fund for maintain.
ing public order during the 1876:
inaugural ceremonies, are $1,2l9,.
600 higher than the amount ap.
propriated for operating expense.
this iscal year.
MORE OmcerS Requested.
The department wants another
inspector and four captains, Is
lieutenants, IA sergeants and "A
corporals. 1t also asks 102 privates
to bring the uniformed force to
a full operating strength of $500
This strength. it pointed out, was
recommended by, the Washington
Criminal Justice Association.
The increases are needed. ac-
cording to department officials,
to provide sufficient supervisory
felief in view of the five-day week
and to cope with the work load
caused by an increase in popula-
tlon, offenses and traffic over the
last several years.
Also, it is proposed to assign
eorporals as station clerks. They
are designated now as acting cor
porals, with no additional COM
pensation and are in charge of the
stations when a higher ranking
oflcial is not present.
Two Of the captains are to re-
place two detailed to the Capitol.
The department also wants to
promote a captain to inspector
to provide higher ranking head
for the Vice Squad. three lieu
tenants to put captains in charge
OF the Juvenile, Safe and Mar
cotics Squads and another lieu
tenant to provide captain for
the position of liaison officer
between the courts and the de-
partment.
Promotion Of six detective SER
geants to the rank of lieutenant
Is proposed to permit the Detec-
tive Bureau to retain detectives
who now must be transferred
when they attain lieutenancies
in most cases, despite their spe-
cialized experience.
Six new civilian employees are
asked, including a typist for the
statistical Bureau, whose work the
department says is steadily in
creasing because OF more arrests
and offenses and more demands
Tor statistical data.
To handle an increased volume
OF criminal and traffic records, the
police want $4,000 for new-type
filing equipment. which saves en-
ployes' STOPPING and standing at
drawer-type cabinets and is esti-
mated to save 80 per cent in per-
sonnel time.
The department asks a a.
passenger bus for members of the
civil disturbance unit and training
division, nine more scout cars, two
ambulances for cruising and emer-
sency calls, and a large sedan for
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett.
The police propose a $4,000
item for washing scout cars and
patrol wagons. The officers now
must wash their own or pay from
their own pockets to have the Job
done.
In addition, the police want to
replace four patrol wagons, 36
scout cars, towing crane, a stake
body truck and 80 motorcycles.
They want a crash boat for the
harbor precinct.
Again requested this year are
a sound camera and protector for
use in recording interrogation of
prisoners. This would be used in
cases Of serious crimes to record
voice and mannerisms.
The money for the inaugural
ceremonies is to pay firemen and
policemen from other jurisdictions
to help keep order. to provide
badges, take up streetcar plat
forms. rope of streets and pro-
vide coffee and sandwiches for
policemen on detail.
The Fire Department asks $780,
900 each to build new fire houses
in the vicinity of Forty-ninth
and East Capitol streets and
Twenty-fourth and Irving streets
Sc. More protection is needed
in the Northeast and Southeast
areas, it explained. The sites have
been purchased. \
The department also wants
$73,500 for repairs to buildings,
including a small brick addition
back Of Engine Company 26 at
1340 Brentwood road NE.
The proposed outlay for operat-
ing expenses is $1S0.634 higher
than the $4.758,366 appropriated
this fiscal year.
The department asks new
lieutenant, a sergeant and six
privates, and two fire alarm tele-
phone operators.
It wants $122,200 worth of ap-
partus, including five pumping
engines, and a 75-foot aerial lad
der truck. Also requested is
$35, 900 for hose:
Proposed repairs to the flreboat,
the william T. Belt, would cost
$15.747, according to the propos-