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principal Officers had never been clearly defined, and, as a consequence, some of the functions appertaining to the Office of Superintendent not performed at all, while in oven three

other

cases one, two, or

Acere

Superintendents might be occupying themselves with what could only

be efficiently done by

direction of me Officer.

or under the

7. A case is reported

eri

good

authority in which two Superior

Officers, who were engaged in

the circumstances connected

investigating

with

a most serious crime, arrived at different conclusims. Head these

Officers cordially

co-

operated with

each other, the result might have

been

very different and instead of another undetected crime being

recorded, a conviction might

reasonably have been locked for

In the

general management

and discipline of the Force, the same want of system prevailed

x 9.

Applications for promotion,

leave of absence, and the like were made

or all of the Superintendents, and I have Anown applicants

leany

go from

one Superintendent to another initil they obtained what they sought.

Constables frequently obtained. leave of absence of one superintuident

+ 10.

after being refused by another, and