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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MAY, 1879.
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2. In bringing this question before me, the Captain Superintendent adds that JOHN FREEMAN'S
character roll counts for ten years' service as “Very good.”
3. But on looking through the character roll,
I find eight offences recorded, some no doubt not
very serious, but one so grave that it is impos-
sible for me to overlook it. It is an offence des-
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cribed in the character roll as 'gross neglect of duty," and, on calling for the details, the Captain Superintendent states that it was a case in which P.C. FREEMAN being in charge of a Police Station
was bound to have sent the Indian Constables on duty at 10 P.M., but that, at midnight, the Ins- pector of the district having occasion to arrest a man found no Constables on night duty, and on proceeding to the Police Station he found FREE- MAN and the Indians (who ought to have been on duty) in their beds.
4. This incident occurred in the middle of the year 1877, and though FREEMAN was then fined $6, he had again to be fined ($5) in the follow• ing month for being “asleep on duty.”
5: Though it appears to have been the prac- tice for the Captain Superintendent to record the character roll of a Constable of the Hongkong Police as “Very good” in spite of such incidents,
unless the offences were more numerous, or the fines in each case amounted to $10,-I cannot approve of it.
6. I have long been of opinion that upon the thorough performance of the Night duties of the Police Force we have mainly to depend for the prevention of crime in this Colony. I see no. reason for doubting the accuracy of the view taken
by the recent Committee of the Legislative Council
presided over by the late Mr. MAY, that this Co- lony has been insufficiently policed at night time and that this has had probably more to do with the increase in some class of offences than any other cause.
7. But if I were now to ratify the Captain Superintendent's certificate that P. C. FREEMAN'S conduct has been "very good" and to give him accordingly the suggested bonus of $250, I should not be encouraging that thorough performance of the night duties of the Force that I consider to be of such vital importance.
8. The Captain Superintendent will, therefore, be good enough to revise the discharge certificate in this case, substituting a lower mark of conduct for the phrase "very good," and he will also see that FREEMAN is paid the lower bonus of $120, instead of $250.
9. This decision may appear to press hardly upon P.C. FREEMAN, who, knowing the practice that had existed here for some years past, has not unnaturally calculated on receiving a discharge certificate marked "very good" though on two
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