10 Transferred In Shakeup of S.F. Police
Oakland Tribune
Oakland, CA
Eight captains and two patrolmen were transferred today in a shakeup of the San Francisco Police Department as a result of bribery indictments against six policemen. Chief Thomas Cahill said the shakeup is going to continue “extensively” among patrolmen and sergeants. One of the captains is Charles E. Borland who came under fire yesterday on the way some of the indicted officers were booked.
The transferred are: Borland, from Central Station to motorcycle detail; Daniel W. Kiely, from city prison to Mission Station; John A. Engler, from Mission to ‘Central; * Arthur P. Williams, from Ingleside to Northern; Harry L. Nelson, from Northern Ingleside: Edward C. Greene, from motorcycle detail to city prison; Ted J. Terlau, from Golden Gate Park to Richmond Station; and Walter S. Ames, from Richmond to Golden Gate Park. The patrolmen involved in the transfers are Edward F. Hogan, who’ll go from Central to Ingleside, and John J. Ryan, from Ingleside to Central. Cahill said all of the transfers will become effective 8 a.m. Monday. A furor above the indict- | Tribune photo TEAMSTER OFFICIALS -Frank DeMartini (left), retiring secretary-treasurer of Team• sters Local 70 and installing officer, hands the gavel to newly-elected president Cy Stulting. Watching approvingly is Jack Sweeney, who succeeds Department of six policemen raged around Borland yesterday. Departmental rules require that a policeman be arrested captain, not another policeman. Instead, Borland had his clerk, Officer Hogan, make the arrests. Hogan tried to slip away from members of the press and book the men at county jail instead of city prison. Borland, who claimed he was unable to make the arrests himself because he had been injured in a fall, said when he tried to elude reporters and photographers.
Supervising Capt. Philip Kiely called Hogan’s act “a stupid one” and said he would recommend to Chief Cahill that the officer be reprimanded for the improper booking. Deputy Chief Al Nelder likened attempts to avoid the press to “one of those Hollywood matrimonial runaways, where a guy is eloping with Hogan was acting on his own Freeway Gallagher Department his seventh wife and is trying to duck the cameras.” He ordered an inquiry. The six policemen – two sergeants and four patrolmen -were indicted by the grand jury on bribery conspiracy charges involving shakedowns of bars allegedly frequented by homosexuals. The men are Sgts. Alfred Cecchi and Robert McFarland, and Patrolmen Edward Bigarani, Michael Sugrue, Telfred Slettvedt and Donald Murphy. They have all denied guilt: