CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 329

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-proposed fusion of the fail and Police

Departments, as

the duties of each

are very onerous and responsible, requiring undivided attention._ We all know that the fail

administration,

as at present

ennducted by Me Douglas, is all

that

we ean desire, and I really

do not see

why

Mi

should

Mun

the risk of endangering that which we know to be good because another Departinent is in need of improvement. The recommendation of Mt. Denne is all the more strange seeing

that but a few days ago

he

apented most readily to a proporal which I submitted suggestive of

withdrawal of the Police Guard

altogether from the Jail, and of the

an additional in

engagement of number of Turn Keys. -

There is

Paragraph 10-

very

little doubt that

many of the Inspectors and Sergeants

are quite unfit for the position. which they have been elevated, and that to this cause and not to the

slaquation of promotion is greatly

that absince of

and

ovning

energy interest which, to me Mr. Deane's words, is observable amory,

the offices

and is characteristic of the Constibles.

As to the case which is

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