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growing up for whose instruction some provision ought accurately to be made.
Police
21. The Police is a costly, ill-located and inefficient body, and its reorganisation has been long deemed a most desirable object. I have a Commission of Enquiry sitting charged to examine into existing defects, to report on the means of removing them, and I hope to be able to introduce some useful reforms. The expenses of the Police last year in all its departments including facts, were £9368 - 9 - 2718
von 89.520 being nearly a third of the whole expenditure of the Colony,
22. The rate specially raised for the Police Force alone was estimated for 1855 at £3000, but may be safely stated at £3,670,- and there is balances of £2925 to be paid out of the general Colonial Funds. The ranks of the Police Europeans, the secondary officers half castes, Malays, Hindus, and other Orientals (not Chinese) and the lowest functionaries principally Chinese. From the imperfect acquaintance with Oriental languages possessed by the higher officers the intercourse is unsatisfactory, being carried on by interpreters, while the little knowledge which the subordinate
Corrections in red ink made at Sir J. Bowring's request. Desp 16 Oct 1855 A*148.
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