CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 235

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primary object of a Police Force.

16.

But, as I had witrrefed & in other places, under somewhat similar circumstances, with what lenacity authorities weel adhere to power once vested in them, however

incompatible with their mare legitimate functions, I was not too sanguine of succes, although foelly

The aware that His Excellonry Lieutenant Governor, when gazetting

mne

to the Acting Command, intended

that I should exercise that control

over

the entire Angular Police with which the Captam superintendent

is invested by

Law.

17.

It was to me more

a

source

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of regret than disappointment that Sexperienced my modest

attempts to

the improve system

met with the most determined

resistance.

+18.

This was at a time when Burglaries, Highway Hobberies, and)

other serious crimes.

vere

of the

most 4 frequent occurrence, and yet the best efforts of the Police were almost ineffectual from the

mentioned

+ 19.

Cawels

It is frequently urged that such division in authurity always

existed in police matters in

Phong thủy

and yet reference need

only be made to the Colonial

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