1. 1. The commissioner may appoint from within the membership not more than one assistant commissioner, two majors, nine captains, nine lieutenants, and one director of radio, each of whom shall have the same qualifications as the commissioner, and such additional force of sergeants, corporals and patrolmen and such numbers of radio personnel as the commissioner deems necessary.
2. 2. In case of a national emergency the commissioner may name additional patrolmen and radio personnel in a number sufficient to replace, temporarily, patrolmen and radio personnel called into military services.
3. 3. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national origin, religion or sex.

(L. 2007 H.B. 461, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1715 merged with S.B. 1187)