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and

5. Is induce men of respectability reliable honesty to enter the Police Force,

and when they had obtained

adequate

local experience to remain in it would

increase to their

large incre

require a very large present pay. Not less perhaps than £50 each of the to European

her annum

to

Privates. £150 to each of the 10

and a

Similar

sum to each

Sergeanto of 11 x

jonspectors. an annual increase in the pay of the European portion only of the

love of $30,000.

to. Trabably good men for persons of that claps of life could

obtained

gradually

be

those tems. but after anival

there, and supposing the present Liunsing system

C

done

with there

away

would be

such a

clap

mo

guarantee that persons of

would

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long refuse bribes from illegal faming houses. though retaining the increased pay given for

the pumpose of ensuring their honesty. I pear the temptations in this climate to

and to various irregularities intemperance, and

which

Sooner

on

later

sap

principles

that

may

of that at

mo mere

the better

have actuated.

men

clap ut starting. are such that

of pay

increase of

would long give

the govemment any adequate seanity -

against a return of the old

CH

system of

venality

and

corruption.

This

is all the

mare

probable when it is considered. That with the abandonment of the present

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system there would be the temptation of

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