7
95
advisable to make a retrenchment
both as regarded strength and pay, and from the 127
12 January 1849.
the detail of
pr
Police
vas
witho
trifling variations. 27 Curopeans
80 Indians, 24 Chinese :- the
of the Indian Force
Dre
nearly
the good
pay
wao
Fenced
third, and in consequence
left the
service,
#previously to the reduction
natives.
of
Manila and Coa
many
the Service, but
Malays joined subsequently almost the only. candidates were the pariahe
of
the Lascure,
who only
joined the Police because it
was
thought to be a lazy life -
its only apparent advantage; a
Jew
mmittis
this service dissipated
this illusion and they speedily
resigned
or were dismissed;
without the st
slightest
exaggeration, currying
bir
the
Police service since 1848 have been a continued struggle; the
deficiency in has been frequently more
in the Indian Forel
than ten men,
seldom been.
very sel
and it have
to its full
strength - The pay of
the
European Face is also much too small, and there is nothing
to induce
in
A.
deserving
TA
join, or if through porcely-or
not being
ce
Lea
to
be enters;
to contime long in the service,
have served
as
any good Constables, who most probably,
seeing
if Teasonably paid and
• prospect of increasing fay