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-proposed fusion of the fail and Police
Departments, as
the duties of each
are very onerous and responsible, requiring undivided attention._ We all know that the fail
administration,
as at present
ennducted by Me Douglas, is all
that
we ean desire, and I really
do not see
why
Mi
should
Mun
the risk of endangering that which we know to be good because another Departinent is in need of improvement. The recommendation of Mt. Denne is all the more strange seeing
that but a few days ago
he
apented most readily to a proporal which I submitted suggestive of
withdrawal of the Police Guard
altogether from the Jail, and of the
an additional in
engagement of number of Turn Keys. -
There is
Paragraph 10-
very
little doubt that
many of the Inspectors and Sergeants
are quite unfit for the position. which they have been elevated, and that to this cause and not to the
slaquation of promotion is greatly
that absince of
and
ovning
energy interest which, to me Mr. Deane's words, is observable amory,
the offices
and is characteristic of the Constibles.
As to the case which is