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Lt

to

minute

of 10th of September 1875

for any

my

when

merence in the Police Force;

preparing

Mon

the Estimatio

For

1878 or 1879, or at

any

other time,

as to the night duties of the Police, Io. Deave the Captain Superintendent in his minute of the 3rd of September saik

"The Best Book has virtually been unaltered since 1874. It will

be observed that large

as those beats

are, I have rarely enough

fill them selle in which

man take charge of

enre

men to

owe

two beats"

16.

on spite of

this want

off

adequate protection at night,

cannot sind that

و

my predccepor

was asked by the Captain Superintendent

6 Price in 1874, 1875. 1876, on 1877

to be peut

106 dindin

t th & ben

was any représentation make to me! "that the Police Force of the Creony was

incufficient. Now, however, M. Deane, in his evidence (p. 18) states

that he considers the Police Force

decidedly too low in numbers, and

he

shys an incresse of 100 is

required.

17

I concur, however, with the

Committee that if the existing free

had been properly managed

this

insufficient state of the night beats would not have existed; and the

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