Mr. SOLOMON. My occupation at the present time at the police department is reserve coordinator. Mr. HUBERT. You are a member of the Dallas Police Department? Mr. SOLOMON. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. How long have you been a member of the department? Mr. SOLOMON. Thirty years last September. Mr. HUBERT. Your particular assignment now is to coordinate the reserve affairs? Mr. SOLOMON. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Of the Dallas Police Department? Mr. SOLOMON. My offices are at the police academy, and I am used out there in training recruits. Mr. HUBERT. Were you in that same position during the period November 22 to 24, 1963? Mr. SOLOMON. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. I would like you to state for the record just how the reserve program of the Dallas Police Department is set up, because I don't think we have it in the record otherwise. Mr. SOLOMON. Well, I am sure you don't. The reserve operates different in every city that I know, and just to their particular needs. Now, the reserve organization in Dallas is strictly what the name implies. It is, really a reserve intended to be called upon when there is a catastrophe, some real bad emergency, to augment our manpower. It is a semimilitary organization in that we call it the reserve platoon. It has three companies commanded by a captain. Each company has three platoons. And each platoon has three squads. There are approximately--it fluctuates just a little bit--but there are approximately 300 men in the organization. Mr. HUBERT. Who is the reserve captain? Mr. SOLOMON. There are four reserve captains. Now, the reserve major is Major Tropolis, the major in command. We call him the reserve commander. He is George Tropolis. Mr. HUBERT. Who are the captains? Mr. SOLOMON. The captains are J. E. Marks, C. O. Arnett--I believe you talked to him last night--L. C. Crump and O. S. Muller. Mr. HUBERT. Do these men train at regular intervals? Mr. SOLOMON. Yes, sir. They are all required to go through a training program of about 72 hours. They do that 1 night a week. Takes about 8 months to complete that before they are used in any way, before they are given a uniform or anything of that nature. After they complete this training, they are outfitted with a uniform at their own expense, and from then on the participation that they do is considered observation training. In other words, there is a program set up whereby they report at least two times a month. We have it set up twice a month, and mandatory that they come every third month. If they don't we drop them. But each reserve is required to report at least once a month for observation training. He can do this in a squad car, in the jail office, or dispatcher's office, or in any phase of the police operation, really, and he is in uniform, and he works right alongside the regular officer and just assists him in his work in anything he wants him to do if he has a belligerent prisoner, but still that is considered observation training.