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10 July
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(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
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12 AUG 07/
Janitary Laws Administration Comm?
Insp. J. Reidie's evidence,
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Recommends that SofS should consider question of his dismissal
Mr Tiddes Myr Luces
(Minutes.)
See also 29336, which deals with the similar case of Inspector Brett. The decision on both cases must be the same,
In both cases Mr May asks the S of S to dispense with the services of an officer by the exercise of the prerogative of the Crown because there is no chance of getting him dismissed on trial before the Executive Council. The ground for dismissal is that both officers are shewn to have had far more money in the bank than they could possibly have saved out of their salaries, and have not been able to give any satisfactory explanation. Mr Reidie's main line of defence is that he was Treasurer of several clubs and messes and their accounts passed through his account, Mr Brett's is that he had a very economical wife and his lodgers paid for all the household expenses. Both officers are open to the gravest suspicion, as the most natural explanation of their accounts is that they received illicit commissions and bribes but I submit that suspicion,