53
model of
the Police Stations in Ireland.
It will even now, I
hope, be possible
to have them furnished with loop-
holes
and other
means
for musketry, of temporary defence, without a large expense. But I dare not conceal from Your Lordship that it has been
observed here that it would be
futile
to incur any expense
for the Colony to render the Police Stations defensible, if the Colonial Office should persist in the policy of preventing there being any disciplined policemen to defend
them,
by disallowing the vote of Legislature of £300 per annum for
a
Military Adjutant and Drill-Instructor. You are already aware that the acting Captain Superintendent has reported that a large proportion of the arms
now in use
by the Police
are
unserviceable
or dangerous from want of professional
care and inspection; and he has since discovered, on putting the English constables, for the first time,
under a course
of regular drill, that a
considerable number of them had
never been taught,
even
how to load
and
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83-4
X see Governor's despatch N. 334 of 10 Fbre 1863.
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model of the Police Stations in Ireland.
It will even now, I hope, be possible to have them furnished with loop-holes and other means for musketry, of temporary defence, without a large expense. But I dare not conceal from Your Lordship that it has been observed here that it would be futile for the Colony to incur any expense for rendering the Police Stations defensible, if the Colonial Office should persist in the policy of preventing there being any disciplined policemen to defend them by disallowing the vote of Legislature of £300 per annum for a Military Adjutant and Drill-Instructor.
You are already aware that the acting Captain Superintendent has reported that a large proportion of the arms now in use by the Police are unserviceable or dangerous from want of professional care and inspection; and he has since discovered, on putting the English constables, for the first time, under a course of regular drill, that a considerable number of them had never been taught, even how to load.
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X see Governor's despatch N. 334 of 10 Fbre 1863.