Civil Service Commission v. Walsh

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

This action in mandamus was brought by appellee on February 9, 1968, to have the court order appellants to certify him as a permanent employee on the Civil Service rolls as a patrolman in the City of Pittsburgh, Bureau of Police, effective September 5, 1966, or, in the alternative that he be given a hearing according to the administrative procedure mandated by the Civil Service Law and the practices of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police.

On June 6, 1966, after satisfactorily completing the pi*eliminary requirements, appellee was sworn in as a police officer in the City…