the corrupt privity and connivance
of the Police - Commodities easily
urchasable.
3. Her Majesty's
Government therefore when hereafter
fridging of the
contemplated, by its results, will
have
to remember that in
future, the Executive cannot
Count
as now,
on
the unintense
assistance which for several years has been afforded to
the local Government by the Licensees,
who had
very heavy interests
at stake conditional on
promoting Government's
their
the views of the
Government as
well by putting
down all gambling except that
214
permitted by Law under Police supervision, as
well as by detecting all
Criminals and returned Convicts.
The difficulty of the Executive will however be enormously
increased
by
the
material
support and
assistance of the Licensees being
suddenly rejected at a time
when
apparently
the Police Force seems in such
disorganized
state
and
feeble,
and
that it is
presented as unable to cope with the most ordinary difficulty
under the
existing favorable Circumstances of the present
reformed regime - whereby police corruption
was
entirely suppressed
and Crime diminished fifty per
cent.