four
more vacancies by February next,
I have the honor to
request
Your
Lordship to instruct the Crown Agent to send out, on the usual conditions,
men
to fill those vacancies.
On looking through
2.
return
of
the nationalities
of
those
Police Officers who have been
punished
or dismissed for
drunkenness, I find that the British
element in the Force is not the
most temperate.
3.
For this, and other reasons,
I think it would be well not to
recruit the Force solely in Scotland
but to try and get
men
occasionally
from the Irish constabulary.
4.
Provision is made in the
Estimates to meet this expenditure.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most Obedient,
Humble Servant,