CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 213

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concluding sentence of my letter "I have

"found that although this,

" for three

has been

years a Sergeant, he has

" reported a single man fox neglect of duty:

The result of this application

may

be

"

gathered from $3. of my present report,

vaz:

that there

mo

to power to reduce.

The Attorney General also stated. (because a specific charge of neglect against the Sergeant had been. dismissed by the Magistrate) that. "He could not understand upon what "grounds the Captain Superintendent

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proposed that the man should

" be reduced. Such a course would be

" in his opinion unjust, arbitrary, and offensive to the Magistrate who tried

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" the case. As I had reported on the Sergeants continued inefficiency during

three years, it fallams that the preacent is established that - provided a

A ma

keeps himself fre from a specific charge

of neglect of dirty at a particular time

and

place, it would be an renjust and -arbituary action on

liem,

euen

for years.

11.

my part to reduce though he has been inefficient

Having thus culverted to the canses

(some of them trivial in themselves,

but when accumulated.

possessing great

power) which have tended to the deterioration of the Force and the extension

the honor to offer

of Crime, I have now

suggestions - which if earried out will