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concluding sentence of my letter "I have
"found that although this,
" for three
has been
years a Sergeant, he has
" reported a single man fox neglect of duty:
The result of this application
may
be
"
gathered from $3. of my present report,
vaz:
that there
mo
to power to reduce.
The Attorney General also stated. (because a specific charge of neglect against the Sergeant had been. dismissed by the Magistrate) that. "He could not understand upon what "grounds the Captain Superintendent
ގ
proposed that the man should
" be reduced. Such a course would be
" in his opinion unjust, arbitrary, and offensive to the Magistrate who tried
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" the case. As I had reported on the Sergeants continued inefficiency during
three years, it fallams that the preacent is established that - provided a
A ma
keeps himself fre from a specific charge
of neglect of dirty at a particular time
and
place, it would be an renjust and -arbituary action on
liem,
euen
for years.
11.
my part to reduce though he has been inefficient
Having thus culverted to the canses
(some of them trivial in themselves,
but when accumulated.
possessing great
power) which have tended to the deterioration of the Force and the extension
the honor to offer
of Crime, I have now
suggestions - which if earried out will