STATE OF NEW YORK SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Department of State Police For the Year 1924 ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS HEADQUARTERS JOHN A. WARNER, Superintendent. STANLEY C. BEAGLE. THOMAS A. KEMMY. JOSEPH C. RAUSCH.. JOHN R. MCCORMICK. THEODORE M. SPELMAN. Captains: WINFIELD W. ROBINSON, Troop A. WILLIAM J. GEORGE, Troop A. Chief Clerk Personnel and Pay Roll Clerk Requisition and Supply Clerk .Criminal Record Clerk Secretary to the Superintendent Batavia Malone Sidney Oneida Troy White Plains Batavia Batavia Malone Malone Sidney Sidney . Oneida Oneida Troy Troy White Plains White Plains Dr. J. LEWI DONHAUSER. POULTNEY BIGELOW Each troop consists of seventy-eight officers and men. REPORT To His Excellency, the Honorable Alfred E. Smith, Governor of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y.: SIR. This is the seventh annual report of the Department of State Police. The past year is one on which the department can look with pride. None has been more vital to the organization and none has gone by with more accomplished. Attention was called at the beginning of the sixth annual report to the fact that the year of 1923 was one of great moment in the history of the department owing to the resignation of Lieutenant-Colonel George F. Chandler, its first superintendent, who was responsible for the organization, training. policies, ideals and methods of work of the New York State Troopers. It has been the endeavor of the present superintendent to continue to broaden the work of the department along those same lines which had proven so eminently successful. The result has shown more than ever how adapted these principles are to our ever varying activities. No organization is more dependent on the character of its personnel than a police department. The same standards have been rigidly maintained with the result that instead of these standards making it difficult to obtain recruits, a splendid type of young man in large numbers is anxious to be associated with an organization of which he may justly be proud. In selecting the successful candidates from the hundreds who apply, the department has had valuable assistance from Dr. J. Lewi Don hauser who has been in charge of all physical examinations during the past year. Over a thousand men have applied and been notified to appear for examination, so that the extent of this work is considerable aside from its importance in selecting only those who are physically of the finest calibre. All applicants are examined in Albany by the superintendent, those successful in the preliminary tests being afterwards investigated by a commissioned officer through individuals by whom the applicant has been employed during the past five years. The law requires each applicant to be a citizen of the United States; to pass a mental and physical examination; to be of good moral character and between the ages of 21 and 40 years. In addition the department requires each applicant to have an honorable discharge from the army, navy, marine corps or national guard and to be not less than 5 feet 8 inches in height without shoes and weigh not less than 140 pounds stripped. The last session of the Legislature passed two acts directly affecting this department. One increased the number of men in each troop from fifty-eight to seventy-eight by the addition of one lieu |