# Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 23: "Organization Chart - Chicago Police Department"

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A fold-out organization chart of the Chicago Police Department, from the commissioner through staff and field services to the districts, furnished by Commissioner Prendergast on October 5, 1950.

Exhibit No. 23 is a fold-out that faces page 1380 of Part 5; the plate slug reads "(Face p. 1380)." On October 5, 1950, Chicago Police Commissioner Prendergast told the committee he could lay out the department "in a regular graph," and the chairman put the chart in the record "as an exhibit to the commissioner's testimony" (printed page 137). The contents describe it as a "Chart showing organization of Chicago Police Department, furnished by Commissioner Prendergast."

The chart is titled "Organization Chart - Chicago Police Department." The Commissioner of Police is at the top, above a censor division, an administrative assistant, aides to the commissioner and a department inspector. Below are a deputy commissioner in charge of field services and a deputy commissioner in charge of staff services, with branching boxes for the traffic, uniform and detective divisions, bureaus, units and the districts. An approval line at the foot carries a signature over the word "Commissioner" and a typed date in November whose year is not clearly legible in the scan.

This is a hearing exhibit. It is an organization chart of a city department and names no member of any criminal group.

## Sources

- Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy): https://archive.org/details/investigationofo05unit
- Full text of the volume (Internet Archive, OCR): https://archive.org/download/investigationofo05unit/investigationofo05unit_djvu.txt