Councilors Support More Police Funds

A subcommittee of the Cambridge City Council recommended last night that the council appropriate the necessary funds to meet the Police Department's manpower and equipment requirements for next year.

The subcommittee made the recommendations after hearing testimony from spokesman for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Cambridge Police Association.

Two reports critical of the police department, one by the IACP and the other by interim police chief Francis Plane, both recommended the manpower and equipment expenditures.

The city councilors rejected the IACP's proposal that the existing police department building be removed, but agreed with most of the report's other points.