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the appointments should be reserved to Cadets. The Police
duties of the District Officer and Assistant District of-
ficer will as I have pointed out, be very secondary to
their other duties.
Indeed the object of appointing them
as Police officers at all, is simply to temporarily post-
pone the creation of an additional appointment, for which
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at present there is no adequate worth, in the New Territor-
ies.
The work of these district officers is essentially
of a nature which demands the training of a Cadet officer,
and specially a thorough knowledge of Chinese. On the
other hand except as,
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temporary expedient, and in order to
vest adequate authority in District Officers when inspect-
ing Police Stations &c. I am averse to Cadet Officers hold-
ing Police appointments, since they have not undergone the
special training in Police duties, and have no knowledge of
Hindoostani and Punjabi. I have therefore to recommend
to Your Lordship that both the District and Assistant Dis-
trict Officer should be temporarily vested with the powers
of an Assistant Superintendent of Police pending the crea-
tion of a separate Police post for which officers of the
Police only shall be eligible, and that these two appoint-
ments be reserved for Cadet Officers.
12.
In order to prevent the necessity
of two officers living in almost complete isolation, and
also
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