Nation v. City and County of Denver

BERMAN, Judge.

Defendants appeal, first, the trial court’s ruling that Denver’s chief of police was without authority to alter the badges of plaintiffs (police radio engineers) to read: “Radio Engineers” instead of “Denver Police”; and, second, the trial court’s order permanently enjoining defendants from treating plaintiffs as other than police officers. We reverse.

On September 3, 1976, the defendant police chief wrote to the superintendent of radio engineers of the Denver Police Department, directing: (1) that the badges of radio engineers be changed to read “Radio Engineers” instead of…