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stakes or wagers is strictly prohibited in all department 

 buildings. 



14. When marching in a body, members of the force 

 will do so in military order and refrain from talking in 

 ranks. 



15. Members of the force are prohibited from influ- 

 encing or attempting to do so, by threat or otherwise, 

 the business of any citizens. 



16. No member of the force shall communicate to 

 any person information that may enable persons to 

 escape arrest or punishment or that may enable them 

 to secrete stolen goods or otherwise conceal a crime. 

 Nor shall he communicate any information respecting 

 special orders that may be issued for the capture of a 

 criminal. 



17. No member of the force shall accept an award, 

 reward or other emolument without the consent of the 

 superintendent or captain. 



1 8. No member of the force shall divulge information 

 from the force records without the consent of the super- 

 intendent or captain. Should an officer be quoted in 

 the public press as having done so, it shall be regarded 

 as prima facie evidence that he has violated this rule. 



19. Members of the force shall do no talking for 

 publication nor be interviewed, nor shall they make 

 any public speeches on police matters without the per- 

 mission of the superintendent. 



20. In all cases of homicide, violent, mysterious or 

 unnatural death, the superintendent or captain, in 

 whose precinct the body is found, shall immediately 

 notify the medical examiner of the county and -place 



an officer in charge of the body until medical examiner 

 arrives. Under no circumstances must any unauthor- 

 ized person or persons touch or disturb the body, de- 

 stroy finger-print evidence, or remove any evidence of 

 a crime. Should the medical examiner decide to per- 

 form an autopsy, the officer in the case shall remain 

 as a witness and to identify the body. By officer in 

 case is meant the officer who first discovered or saw 

 the body. He simply has to identify the body cut 

 open as the one he discovered, or first saw. Should the 

 officer know the name of the deceased, so much the 

 better. The force is responsible for any property found 

 on the body of a deceased person; such property shall 

 be properly marked or labeled for identification and 

 delivered to headquarters, where it will be held until 

 called for by person or persons authorized to receive it. 

 A body must always be searched in the presence of 

 witnesses. In case of murder, all weapons, clothing 

 worn by the deceased, etc., shall be carefully marked 

 and preserved for the medical examiner's inquest, and 

 later for the prosecuting attorney, 



21. No men of the uniformed force shall incur ex- 

 pense to the Westchester County Park Commission 

 Patrol without permission. 



22. It shall be the duty of each person connected 

 with the force to subject himself to the lawful orders 

 of his superior officers; to be familiar with the contents 

 of these rules and regulations, as well as all general 

 orders by the force, and to conform to the provisions 

 therein contained. 



ORDINANCES, RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE ORGANIZATION AND 

 GOVERNMENT OF THE POLICE FORCE, SOUTH PARK DISTRICT, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Police Force Organization. There are hereby created 

 the offices of one lieutenant of police and such number 

 of sergeants and patrolmen as may from time to time 

 be deemed necessary by the South Park Commission- 

 ers, which offices shall be filled as the needs of the 

 service require, and at the direction of the commis- 

 sioners. Said officers and patrolmen with the captain 

 of police shall constitute the police force. Under the 

 direction of the general superintendent, the captain of 

 police shall have immediate charge of the police de- 

 partment and all officers and employees thereof. The 

 general superintendent shall make such rules and regu- 

 lations for the government of the police force as he 

 may consider necessary or proper and which are not 

 inconsistent with any ordinance of the commissioners. 

 All members of the police department shall have power 

 and it shall be their duty to arrest any person found in 

 the act of violating any law of the state or ordinance 

 of the South Park Commissioners or aiding or abetting 

 in such violation, and shall take all persons so arrested 

 before some court of competent jurisdiction in the South 

 Park District. In case no such court is in session, the 

 person so arrested may be detained in any police station 



in the City of Chicago, within the South Park District, 

 or any safe place until such person so arrested can be 

 brought before such court. 



The members of the police force shall devote their 

 entire time and attention, when on duty, to the enforce- 

 ment of the laws of the State and the ordinances of the 

 commissioners, according to the regulations of the gen- 

 eral superintendent and under the direction of their 

 superior officers, and shall always be subject to dis- 

 cipline when in uniform, whether on duty or not, and 

 while on duty whether in uniform or not. 

 Rules for the Government of South Park Police Officers 



I. All officers are expected to be on their beats dur- 

 ing the following hours, except as different directions 

 may be given to individual officers by the captain. 



Day Men not on Duty in Small Parks. Early men, 

 7.30 A.M. to 6.00 P.M.; late men, 9.30 A.M. to 7.00 P.M. 

 Two hours is allowed for dinner between n.oo A.M. 

 and 3.00 P.M., one of the exchanging officers to be on 

 duty at all times. 



Day Men in Small Parks. From 8.30 A.M. to 7.00 

 P.M.; two and one-half hours is allowed for dinner be- 

 tween 1.30 P.M. and 4.00 P.M. 



