Three top police officials will be charged with finding ways to reward officers who relate allegations of misconduct.

It was intended to reward officers with exemplary duty records in patrol, housing and transit units in each precinct.

Once the existence of the surveillance system became known, the suit said, Chief Hall and Captain Marraccini rewarded officers who agreed to drop their objections to being taped, and demoted or fired those who threatened legal action.

In every case but one, he said, the transfers have been meant to reward highly active officers or to reassign less-successful ones, part of his belief that the department needs "an incentive device for cops to sort of become competitive."

Mr. Natsios said the Mugabe government was not actually giving the property to landless blacks, but using it to reward loyal military officers and political cronies.

Silver Medal (Medal de Palata) - Established 15 April 1907 to reward non-commissioned officers and junior civil officials.

Due to the many wars, the crown needed a means to reward officers, and since cash was not plentiful, ennoblement and grants of land and other fiefs (rights to draw taxes) were used instead.

But the commander of District Four at the time of the questionable arrests, Paul L. Moraff, had instituted a rating system that rewarded officers making the most arrests and issuing the most summonses with plainclothes assignments.

But as a cautionary note he added that the police commissioner should remain able to reward and punish officers and their superiors and that any apparatus that injures the commissioner's credibility also injures the department as a whole.