petitioned for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the state of the Police Force
Your Lordship will observe that I therein mention your approval by Telegram of the Commission which I had issued before receipt of Your Lordship's Dispatch. - I am, moreover, still of opinion that it is fortunate the Inquiry was commenced without delay, because I believe it will be the means of satisfying the Public that the Executive had been generally quite alive to the expediency of improving and strengthening the Police force at all its opportunities.
Lt. Govrs.§.8 No 148 September, 1871.
Govr Jel: 12410 139 3
It has, however, unfortunately been long the tendency here for the public papers to deal with almost everything connected with Government and the Police, as though the Community considered attacks on each existing Government as a sign of independence as well as a natural and proper course. It would, however, be difficult to convey to Your Lordship an adequate idea of the injurious and depressing effect on the Police Force of such continually repeated misrepresentations, and such constant