Native Shipping and population
the Colony thoroughly under the Surveillance of
the Police with a
of
view to the suppression of Piracy,
and the
prevention
of crime-
first laboured under one great difficulty- viz: that of obtaining officers of adequate ability and integrity to carry the provisions of the new laws.
2.
I have no reason to doubt the possibility of accomplishing the objects of the new ordinances and am certain, that it is the duty of the Executive to make the attempt.
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3.
476
Of the present Police I cannot in many respects speak too disparagingly, although for the last few months its improvement has been very great- however effected by my own direct and continuous personal attention to details which are certainly not usually comprised in a Governor's duties - The Superintendent of Police was formerly a Sergeant in the Royal Artillery and though apparently a very worthy man, never had any previous Police training and is utterly unfitted to cope with the difficulties of his position-