CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 277

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length the Home Secretary has, it appear, come to the determination of stopping Mr Field's pension, as a mark of his disapprobation of the naumer in which the

business of his establishment was conducted. Mor Field was

A

very

weful Officer while connected with the Police, and he was no doubt deservedly entitled to his pension for the public services he had rendered; and he of course considers that he has been very insjustly heated by his pension being tasten from him, and it is said that he interds to adopt legal proceedings to try.

the question

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whether the Government can

deprive

in such

him

a

of his pension

summary

maner

If this should be done, it is

very probable that it will opm

into the whole

up

a v

inquiry

of the police and the detective system, and that some very

curious disclosures will be made in reference to these matters.

As the necessity for

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employing

these auxiliaries for

Police purposes ceased to exist

since in England,

long

would be

the

it

very difficult to justify employment of an Irregular Detectives force

British Celery in 1871.

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