Petitions - City of Somerville

Thursday, February 15, 1950
RULE 11
CAPTAINS AND LIEUTENANTS
Section 1. The c.aptains and lieutenants shall perform the duties
assigned .them by the chief. A captain, or in his absence, a lieutenant,
shall call the daily roll-calls, communicate all necessary information and
orders, note and report all absentees, and shall carefully read and explain
to the men all general orders and all special orders relating to the department.
They shall daily inspect the men, roform any negligence in attire,
want of cleanliness or neatness, or other improper personal habit, and report
to the chief -every case of misconduct, insubordination, neglect of or unfitness
for duty. They shall instruct the men as to their conduct at fires or
riots/ in making arrests or complaints, as to -defects in the highways, nuisances
and accidents, in procuring information, or other matters pertaining
to their duty. They shall see that each officer has -a copy of, and duly observes
the rules and regulations of the department.
RULE 111
SERGEANTS
Section 1. Sergeants of police, when assigned to street duty,
shall have charge of the patrolmen on their routes and shall instruct and
assist them in their duties. They shall constantly and faithfully patrol the
city, visiting each route when practicable each tour of duty. They shall
carefully note and impartially report each day in writing to the chief or
other officer in charge of. the department, every patrolman absent from his
route without permission or found violating any of the laws of the Commonwealth,
ordinances of. the city, rules and regulations of the board of aldermen,
or general orders promulgated by the chief, or other neglect of discipline
or duty. Any failure to so act and report shall be sufficient cause
for a discharge from the service.
Section 3.. They shall inspect every man of their respective
platoons, as soon as they are formed in line preparatory to marching on patrol
or othery duty, and see that every member thereof before he leaves the
station house is clean and neat in person, and properly uniformed and
equipped.
Section 3. They shall leave the station house with their respective
platoons on each tour of duty and shall go with some one man to his
releaving post, taking the different men of their•platoons in succession
without notice to them.
, . . Section 4. During their tour of duty they are to visit the
station house only.for the purpose of receiving and carrying out such orders
as may be given them by the officer in command.
Section 5. Sergeants shall at all times be vigilant in preserving
the peace, whether upon assigned duty, in uniform or otherwise, and
it shall be their duty to observe and report to the chief of police at all
times any officer of the department whom they may observe violating any
rules or orders governing the department.
RULE IV
• TRAFFIC OFFICERS
Section 1. Patrolmen detailed to traffic duty she.ll be civil
and courteous to the driving public and to pedestrians. They are detailed
to the different traffic posts wholly for the purpose of safeguarding the
lives and property of the people and preventing accidents and congestion.
Any person requesting information from them will be given all 'necessary atter
tion. They shall be brief, yet courteous, but any unnecessary conversation
with citizens is forbidden. They must not scold or berate any-driver or pedestrian
who happens to violate any'of the traffic rules. Any violation of
this rule shall be sufficient cause to remove such officer from traffic duty.
Section 2. When a person violates 'any traffic regulation, the
traffic officer shall take his name and address,- and the number 'of his car,
and report the same , with a brief history of the case, asking to have a summons
if he thinks one should issue. The matter will -then be taken up by the
chief, or in his absence by .the officer in charge, who will decide whether
of not a summons shall issue.
RULE V
PATROLMEN
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497