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PARKS 



Training and Experience (Patrolman Grade 3) 



1. What is your age? Are you married or single? 



2. What schools have you attended? State length 

 of time spent in each and how far advanced you were 

 when leaving. 



3. State in detail the experience you have had as a 

 policeman, guard, watchman, or any similar position 

 where your duties consisted of guarding lives and prop- 

 erty, and keeping order. Specify your employer, length 

 of employment, and nature of work done by you. 



4. State in detail all other positions held by you. 



5. Have you served in any branch of the army or 

 navy during the Spanish-American or World wars? If 

 so, give date of your enlistment and honorable dis- 

 charge, and state whether you have presented your 

 discharge, at the office of this commission. If not, do 

 so within the next two days to receive the additional 

 credit of five per cent on this subject. 



Example of Oral Examination of Park Policemen 



Grade 5 



i. What do you think are your duties when assigned 

 to police a park? 



2. How would you direct traffic in a park if it became 

 necessary to do so? 



3. How would you handle a gang of young toughs 

 who habitually congregated at a certain park to the 

 annoyance of other people? 



4. What would you do if (a) You found a stray 

 horse in your park? (b A wrecked automobile? (c) 

 Child picking flowers? (d) A parade? 



Example of Written Examination of Park Policemen 

 Grade j 



You, as a park policeman, have found a man who 

 has apparently committed suicide: You are to assume 

 all other details and write a report of this to the captain 

 of the park policemen, giving him in detail all the cir- 

 cumstances in the case, together with your action. 

 Do not sign your name. Use your identification number 

 instead. This report will be graded as follows: Context, 

 70 per cent; form, 10 per cent; penmanship, 10 per cent; 

 spelling, 10 per cent. 



EXAMPLE OF CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR PLAYGROUND POLICEMAN, 

 PLAYGROUND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 



Department. Playground, Recreation Department. 



Duties of position. General watchman's duties at the 

 city playgrounds. 



Qualifications required. Knowledge of rules and regu- 

 lations of the police and recreation departments, and 

 ordinances affecting the city playgrounds. 



Classification. Class H, Grade 2. Trained labor serv- 

 ice, salary $1,020. 



Examination weights. Special subject, 5; report, i; 

 experience, 3; penmanship, %; arithmetic, %. 



1. Outline generally the duties of a playground 

 policeman. 



2. As park policeman, if you were in charge of a 

 large playground, what system would you adopt that 

 would enable you to keep a close watch on all parts 

 of the grounds? 



3. If a bad fire should occur in the field house of the 

 playground, what would you do? 



4. If you discovered that the supply house had been 



broken open, and that some of the supplies had been 

 stolen, what would you do? 



5. In policing the playground, what system of report- 

 ing would you adopt, so that the proper authorities 

 would know that you were patrolling the same? 



6. If you discovered a man committing a crime in 

 the playground, how would you place him under arrest? 



7. What police equipment should a park policeman 

 carry with him at all times while on duty? 



8. In what way could you cooperate with the police 

 department in properly policing a large playground? 



9. (a) What crime would you charge a person with 

 who had stolen supplies from the playground, the value 

 of which was $150? (b) If you caught a man in the act 

 of breaking into the field house at night, with the intent 

 to steal supplies, what crime would you charge him 

 with ? 



10. (d) If you should arrest a man for begging money 

 of the children at the playground, what charge would 

 you place against him? (b) What is a felony? 



TRAINING OF PARK GUARDS 



It is obvious that there should be a difference in the intensity and 

 content of the training for the different ranks of officers in park guard 

 service, but, in general, every park guard regardless of rank should be 

 thoroughly trained in the following: 



I. The essential difference between the work of a park guard and that 

 of an ordinary city policeman and the attitude that a guard must have 



