People Ex Rel. Jordan v. . Martin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 16,1896, which affirmed, on certiorari, an order made by the respondents dismissing-the relator from the police force of the police department of the city of New York. On the 30th of August, 1894, the relator, who for seven years had been a patrolman of the police force of the city of New York, was charged “with conduct unbecoming an officer.”
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 16,1896, which affirmed, on certiorari, an order made by the respondents dismissing-the relator from the police force of the police department of the city of New York. On the 30th of August, 1894, the relator, who for seven years had been a patrolman of the police force of the city of New York, was charged “with conduct unbecoming an officer.” The charge embraced the. following specifications: First, that he “ obtained leave of absence from 6 p. m. August 29, until 6 a. m.…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The government of the 'police department of the city of ISTew York is confided by law to a board of police, consisting of four commissioners, who are empowered to make “ rules and regulations of general discipline of the subordinates under their control, but in strict conformity to the provisions of” the Consolidation Act. (L. 1882, ch. 410, §§ 37 and 250.) “ Members of the police force ” are “ removable only after written charges * * * have been preferred against them, and after the charges have been publicly examined into, upon such reasonable notice to the person charged, and in such…
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