CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 246

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Mauritius had become so much impaired that complaint of the most serious character were constantly made regarding it, and the entire Press of the Colony advocated some change or other in its constitution .

II.

The Government nonimated Commission to enquire into the Organization and general working

of the Police, which resulted in the Doree bing thoroughly overhauled and reorganized.

54.

As the Preamble of the

Ordinance that was pamed in

Mauritius to provide for the

More

effective working of the Police refers

to one of the

of the principal

causes that

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had operated so prejudicially to

the interests of the service, I beg

to

annex it: "Whereas under the syetime

" of Police at present existing in the "Colony, there is in Port Living, a

by,

" constabulary force not directed " and not responsible to the Government, " and the Police Force in the country Districts is under the Superintendence

of the Reveral District Magistrates,

" and not of the Head officer of the "Police. And whereas the emflicting " authority and divided reepausibility

consequent upore these arrangement, has been found seriously to impair

• the efficiency of the Police Force

throughout the leslony

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