CHIEF HAMMOND RETURNS TO GREENVILLE

Chief (of Detectives) Hammond decided to return to the area of his birth, he is a native of Pickens County-in 1920 and Feb. 20 of that year he entered police service here. He spent three years with the New York police force and he had been a Texas Ranger for three years. He had also resigned his commission in the Air Corps after World War I.

"Popularity means success. If the law abiding citizens all have a good word for a police department and its individual member, half the battle is won because the moral force exerted through goodwill is invaluable." Greenville News, June 26, 1962, pg 18b