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,. ORDNAN. -NO. 6586•
I AN ORDINANCE CREATING TuEWO MEN 'S BUREAU OF THE LITTLE ROCK POLICE_
i $P,.ARTMENT,, CREATINGTIM POSITIONS OF POLICEWOMEN, '
_ FIXING t EE SALARIES AND MANNER OF EMPLOYiENT ,
ING AN EMERGENCY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
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�. SECTION 1. The Women's Bureau of the Little Rock Police
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chiefly with the protection of juveniles and the apprehension
of juvenile delinquents and shall discharge such other responsi-
bilities as may be assigned to it by the Chief of Police.
SECTION 2. Special assistant to the Chief of Police shall
be in enarge Ox' the bureau ana sne snail be answerable alrectly
to the Chief of Police.
SECTION 3. There are hereby created fCUr('4y, positions of
policewomen, who shall work in the Women's Bureau created in
section 1
of
this ordinance,
and who shall
discharge
the duties
aw's inn-
by
the head of the
Bureau and by
the Chief
of i1o11 ee;
and they shall have the same power and authority in the preservation
of the public peace, health and safety that are possessed by male
members of the Police Department.
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SECTION Persons chosen to fill the positions created
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by section 3 of this ordinance shall be chosen by the Civil Service
Commission,in the manner provided by law; they shall be white females
between 21 and 45 years of age; they shall pass a physical examina-
tion to determine their capacity to discharge the duties of their
employment; but they need not be electors of the City of Little
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Rdii3r, drkaasas,.and they need not-have re,4ided in Little Rc?4k,
Arkansas, for any definite or .minimum period of time prior to their
employment.
SECTION The persons chosen to fill the positions created
by section. 3 Hof this ordinance shall have the same rank
as that now possessed by patrolmen in the Little Rock Police De-
partment and shall be paid the same amounts and in the same fashion
as patrolmen are paid.
SECTION `6. 1!1uEREAS, at the present time there is no branch
of the city government concerned exclusively with the problem of
, Ju.venile delinslueney,an.d
WHEREAS, the public peace, health and safety is endangered
thereby, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance
shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.
PASSED :—Augu, $t 9, 1043. APPROVED
. Mayor
ATTEST ,
Cit-•Cler
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