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the work which this scheme would
entail on the members of
the Force, is
too hard and this being so, it should be
regarded at present as purely
experiment
to be carefully watched, and to be fully
reported repson from time to trene.
not
In the event of its results must proving
stisfactory the hambers of the force,
should be increased.
this
4. It is impossible after reading
report to avoid the conclusion
teat the number
of men actually
available for ordinary Police Duties,
is at present too small.
Such is the district view of the
Chief
Chief officers, although Mr. Deave
appears to have been hitherto deterred
from pressing for an increase, by an
impression that no more money was
to be
9.
spent on the Police.
The Force has remained at the
same nominal sbougth of 630, or
thereabouts during the last seven_
years, although the population of the
Colony
has
very considerably increased
during the same period, and although
the demands of the.
the Colony
-outlying portions
have sensibly reduced the
strength of the Police available for
the City of Victoria; and at the sauce
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tive