DETECTIVES DO NOT EXPLAIN.
They Can Order Anybody Locked in
Holdover for a Night.
"It's a blame shame for five big, healthy men to pounce onto one lonely gazabo and then wait until in the morning to explain. But they do it every day -- so the records show." The above is a copy of a poster which hangs on the wall of a room at police headquarters above an old police report. The report is made out to the chief and explains that five detectives arrested one man at the Union depot and locked him up over night booked for investigation.
Instead of explaining to the officer in charge of a police station, detectives have their prisoners locked up over night and do the explaining to the inspector in the morning. A policeman is compelled to inform the officer in charge of the station what charge he wishes to place against a prisoner and the officer uses his discretion as to whether the prisoner should be held.
