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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 24, 11 June 1913, Page 6

Chicago poeseeeee a novelty in the way of a policeman whose sole business ie to keep an eye on the morale of the city’ police force: This is Major M. -1.. Ftinkliauscr, who has just been appointed to the newly-ereati'd post of Beeond Superintendent of Police. His duties are specified in the.appointment as "regulation of public morale." and the poet was created as the result of tire recent "graft" scandals in New York. A "shake up" in the Chicago Police Department Khowed that there was room for improvement, and the new officer wa“ appointed to receive complaints from the citizens as to what the polite have failed to do. While the. regular men are on duty the Second Superintendent and a picked squad arc investigating charges of laxity, corruption, and brutality. Major Funkhaueer is not authorised to make arrests, and all ho can do is to send in his reports to ihe Chief of Police, who will then act upon them. The Second Superintendent, ■who fought in the Spanish-American war, wag a successful businees man. and the •alary for the poet is £l,OOO a year.