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to the concluding passage of your letter - though your Warrant should

that

ever

to

be amended so as to authorize you inflict any other punishment than firing

of Her Majesty's Regiments

men attached to the Police Corps who might misconduct themselves, His Excellency the Governor in Council should look upon such a step as imprisoning or flogging them to be altogether inadvisable since it is quite obvious that men who had been guilty of offences calling for the public infliction and consequent degradation of those punishments, would be utterly unfit to be again

trusted with Police Duties.

His Excellency the Governor in Council has given the subject of your letter the fullest and most serious consideration, and he is decidedly of opinion

very

men

761

cannot be restrained

ove

opinion that if ... from Excesses by mulcting them of a portion - or in extreme cases of the whole - of their liberal Daily Pay there is only alternative left for dealing with them - that of sending them back to the Regiment, to which they belong, and it therefore follows that that should be invariably done.

out

In England the smallest offence on the part of a Policeman is attended with his immediate dismissal and you must be personally

aware that the same

rule is also rigidly enforced in India towards persons similarly employed who

not be enlisted Soldiers, whilst in

may

all cases where the latter are (as is to a large extent at all the Residencies) lent for Civil Duties or placed on what is termed the Town Major's List for petty Staff employ, the least deviations,

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201 to the concluding passage of your letter - though your Warrant should that ever to be amended so as to authorize you inflict any other punishment than firing of Her Majesty's Regiments men attached to the Police Corps who might misconduct themselves, His Excellency the Governor in Council should look upon such a step as imprisoning or flogging them to be altogether inadvisable since it is quite obvious that men who had been guilty of offences calling for the public infliction and consequent degradation of those punishments, would be utterly unfit to be again trusted with Police Duties. His Excellency the Governor in Council has given the subject of your letter the fullest and most serious consideration, and he is decidedly of opinion very men 761 cannot be restrained ove opinion that if ... from Excesses by mulcting them of a portion - or in extreme cases of the whole - of their liberal Daily Pay there is only alternative left for dealing with them - that of sending them back to the Regiment, to which they belong, and it therefore follows that that should be invariably done. out In England the smallest offence on the part of a Policeman is attended with his immediate dismissal and you must be personally aware that the same rule is also rigidly enforced in India towards persons similarly employed who not be enlisted Soldiers, whilst in may all cases where the latter are (as is to a large extent at all the Residencies) lent for Civil Duties or placed on what is termed the Town Major's List for petty Staff employ, the least deviations, wo from good
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to the concluding passage of your letter- though your Warrant should

that

ever

to

be amended so as to authorize you inflict any other punishment than firring

of Her Majesty's Regiments

jon amew

attached to the Police Corps who might misconduct themselves, His Excellency the Governor in Council should look upon such a step as imprisoning or flogging them to be altogether inadvisable since it is quite obvious that men who had been quilty of offences calling for the public infliction and consequent degradation of those punishments. would be utterly unfit to be again

trusted with Police Duties.

His Excellency the Governor in Council has given the subject of your letter the fullest and most serious consideration, and he is decidedly of opinion

very

mew

761

cannot be restrained

ove

opinion that if . from Excesses by mcleting them of a portion -or in extreme cases of the whole - of their liberal Avil Pay there is only alternative left for dealing with them - that of sending them back to the Regiment, to which they belong, and it therefore follows that that should be invariably done.

out

In England the smallest offence the part of a Policeman is attended with his immediate dismissal and you must be personally

aware that the same

rule is also rigidly enforced in India towards persons similarly employed who

not be enlisted Soldiers, whilst in

may

all cases where the latter are (as is to a large extent at all the Residencies)lent for Civil Duties or placed on what it torned the Torow Major's List for petty Staff employ, the least deviations,

wo from

good

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