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Among the panelists (I. to Chairman John Zuccottl, Richard Ravltch, Amalla Betanzos, Robert Patterson, Simon Gourdlne, Dr. Morton Bard, First Deputy Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy and NYPD Chief of Personnel Richard Koehler. TTDd (p(S3DBD macm Em3Dtffi3s tor? Dbfte EcsisOx These are the members of the panel that will study the Police Department: Richard Ravitch, 51, millionaire builder. Former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and head of the state Urban Development Corp.

John Zuccotti, 47, partner in powerhouse law firm of Tufo and Zuccotti. Former deputy mayor in the Abraham Beame administration as well as City Planning Commission chairman under Beame and Mayor John Lindsay. Amalia Betanzos, 56, chairman of the city's Rent Guidelines Board, which sets rents for rent-controlled and rent-stabilized apartments. Heads Wild- cat Service a nonprofit group that finds jobs for hard-core unemployed. Held numerous city positions under Lindsay and Beame.

Robert Patterson, 61, partner in law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler. Past president of Legal Aid Society and the State Bar Association. Simon Gourdine, 45, now with the Rockefeller Foundation. Formerly Mayor Koch's consumer affairs commissioner and former deputy commissioner of the National Basketball Association. Dr.

Morton Bard, clinical psychologist and professor at the City University Graduate Center. A long-time Police Department consultant Patrick Murphy, 51, first deputy police commissioner, the department's No. 2 man. A former chief of operations, Staten Island borough commander and Knapp Commission Joined department in 1956. Richard Koehler, 40, chief of personnel since 1984.

As department's director of communications he helped revamp 911 system. Served as deputy correction commissioner under Benjamin Ward. Joined the department in 1967. George Sanchez, deputy commissioner for equal opportunity employment, a post created by Ward in June 1984. Formerly worked for the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

GUIDE FROM PAGE THREE Lifting blue curtain The appointment of a committee to conduct a wide-ranging study of police operations is believed to be the first of its kind in the city's history. But it is not the first time the department has been the subject of an investigation into its internal affairs. There was the Gross scandal of '50s, the Knapp Commission of the '70s and the Conyers investigation last year. The Gross scandal: In 1950, Harry Gross, a Brooklyn bookie, told prosecutors he ran a $20 million-a-year bookmaking empire with the help of some of the borough's highest-ranking cops. Gross said he paid $1 million a year to police for protection.

In all, 162 cops lost their jobs, including the commissioner and a deputy. The Knapp Commission: Appointed by Mayor John Lindsay in 1970, the commission headed by attorney Whitman Knapp uncovered widespread corruption from the chief inspector's office down to the cop on the beat The probe was set off in part by charges made by cops Frank Serpico and David Durk. The Conyers investigation: Rep. John Conyers CD-Mich.) headed this congressional subcommittee probe into charges that racism and brutality were "systemic" in the department. Conyers' committee held hearings here and later reported that incidents of police racism and brutality had occurred, but that the department had taken steps to improve the situation.

Salvatore Arena issued that the programs run by the 106th Precinct had violated department guidelines. Chief of Operations Robert Johnston who ordered the written regulations distributed to all police commands, said they revised SNAP guidelines given orally to precinct commanders when the program started in May 1984. Johnston said commanders were instructed on how SNAP was supposed to operate by Raymond Jones, chief of the organized crime control bureau, and Chief of Patrol Hamilton Robinson, who has been forced to retire because of the scandal. "IT WAS almost personalized instruction," Johnston said. "I've been told by the two chiefs that they (the precinct commanders) were trained." "happy to serve" on the panel.

"It was explained to me that we would review certain management and recruiting procedures. I do not view it as a Knapp-type thing. I have the impression we will be using a management and administrative perspective in our work and focus particularly on recruiting and personnel policies, with the idea of making recommendations at a later date." Johnston said he believes the oral instructions were sufficient Interviews with police brass, however, raise questions about how thorough and well understood the instructions were. Jones, for example, said he played no role in teaching the commanders about the program. "I didn't talk to them and wasn't present," he said.

Robinson could not be reached for comment In addition, several commanders said the regulations "got muddled a little bit" or were "open to interpretation." The SNEU program, aimed at cracking down on street drug trafficking, was begun by formal departmental order on April 6, 1983. The order permitted precinct commanders to establish special teams to make drug busts by observing transactions in areas of high trafficking. Several officers would be assigned to observe the sales from hidden locations. They would then radio the description of the buyers and sellers to their teammates, who would make the arrests. The departmental order specified that SNEU teams could be set up only with the permission of a borough commander.

It also said the team could not operate for more than 90 days unless it was reapproved by the borough commander. In the SNAP program, undercover narcotics police make drug purchases inside premises such as marijuana "smoke shops." They then radio to uniformed officers from the precinct who enter the shops and arrest the sellers. To minimize the possibility of corruption, Johnston said, precinct commanders were instructed not to use a regular team of officers to make SNAP arrests. The 106th Precinct had both an SNEU-and a SNAP operation. According to Johnston, precinct Capt Allen Houghton formed a single team of officers to handle both programs.

The team included the five officers indicted for the alleged stun-gun torture: Lt Stephen Cheswick, Sgt Richard Pike, and Officers Loren MacCary, Michael Aranda and Jeffrey Gilbert Johnston said SNEU operation in the 106th violated regulations because its last 90-day authorization expired in February 1984. The 106th Precinct SNAP program violated the guidelines because it consisted of an established team of officers, Johnston said. He said the rule against using a set team was conveyed orally to Houghton and all the other precinct commanders. Several officers, however, said that until the formal regulations were issued on April 26 they didn't realize they were not permitted to use a regular team for SNAP operations. Capt Martin O'Boyle of the 40th Precinct in the Bronx, for example, said he formed a SNEU team of six officers and then also assigned them to all his SNAP operation.

tern. "I don't hire," he said. "I only fire." He also noted the difficulty of administering police hiring and promotion tests, saying, "Every test is contested in court" Ward emphasized that the panel "is not a Knapp Commission," which was created in the 1970s to investigate corruption in the department Zuccotti told the Daily News last night that he was in FROM PAGE THREE George Sanchez, deputy commissioner for equal opportunity employment Ward, noting that his department is "rapidly changing," said he wants to see "how we are recruiting, training and staffing" and what kind of early-warning checks, if any, exist for detecting "problem officers." The police job today, said Ward, "is more complicated, more stressful" than in the past Alluding to huge police rehiring after the city's fiscal crisis, plus litigation that has shaped hiring and promotions in the department, Ward said, "I don't think anyone could have predicted what the Police Department would have looked like today." WARD WAS sharply critical of the civil service sys-. TUDOR FROM PAGE TWO 3 (0 also have the option though it is not considered likely of going the eviction route. Under this plan, an owner or sponsor must sell 51 of the apartments within 15 months.

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