In Re Charges Against Dewar

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment by the district court, Cascade County. The judgment directed that the police commission of the city of Great Falls proceed with its hearing of charges against Robert Dewar, a Great Falls city police officer, without requiring the disclosure of the identity of an informant. Officer Dewar appeals from that judgment.

Robert Dewar, a police officer with the city of Great Falls, is charged with the theft of two bicycles from the Great Falls police department storage garage during the month of October 1974. Charges were brought under section 11-1806,…