CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 190

2.

petitioned for a Royal Commission Endous in of Inquiry into the state of the

Police Dorce

Your Lordship will observe

that I therein mention

your

approval by Pelegram of the Commission which I had issued before receipt of Your Lordship's Dispatch. - I am, mestover,

Jam, still of opinion that it is fortunate the Inquiry

was

f

Lt. Govern's ts.§.8 No 148

September, 1871.

commenced without delay, because I believe it will be the

means

of satisfying the Public that the. Executive had been generally quite alive to the expediency of improving all its

all its opportunities

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and strengthening

for renewing the Police force.

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It has, however, unfortunatez

been long

of

long the hindency here the publie papers to deal with almost every

everything connected with Government and the Police, as

though the Community considered attacks on each existing

Essential

each existing Government

As A)

sign of independenc

as well as a natural and proper course . It would, however, be difficult to convey to Your Lordship

An

adequate idea of the

injurious and depressing effect on the Police Force of such continually repeated misrepresentations, and such constant