CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9] — Page 612

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four

more vacancies by February next,

I have the honor to

request

Your

Lordship to instruct the Crown Agent to send out, on the usual conditions,

men

to fill those vacancies.

On looking through

2.

return

of

the nationalities

of

those

Police Officers who have been

punished

or dismissed for

drunkenness, I find that the British

element in the Force is not the

most temperate.

3.

For this, and other reasons,

I think it would be well not to

recruit the Force solely in Scotland

but to try and get

men

occasionally

from the Irish constabulary.

4.

Provision is made in the

Estimates to meet this expenditure.

I have the honor to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most Obedient,

Humble Servant,

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four more vacancies by February next, I have the honor to request Your Lordship to instruct the Crown Agent to send out, on the usual conditions, men to fill those vacancies. On looking through 2. return of the nationalities of those Police Officers who have been punished or dismissed for drunkenness, I find that the British element in the Force is not the most temperate. 3. For this, and other reasons, I think it would be well not to recruit the Force solely in Scotland but to try and get men occasionally from the Irish constabulary. 4. Provision is made in the Estimates to meet this expenditure. I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient, Humble Servant,
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four more vacancies by February next, I have the honor to request Your Lordship to instruct the Crown Axente to send out, on the usual conditions, men to fill those vacancies. fill On looking through 2. Д return of the nationalities of those Police Officers who have bun punished or dismissed for drunkness, I find that the bestal element in the Force is not this most temperate- 3. For this, and other reasons, I think it would be well not to recruit the Force solely in Scotland but to try and get men occasionally + 609 from the Irish constabulary- 4 Provision is made in the Estimates to meet this expenditus. I have the bonos to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient, Humble Servant,
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four

more vacancies by February next,

I have the honor to

request

Your

Lordship to instruct the Crown Axente

to send out, on the usual conditions,

men

to fill those vacancies.

fill

On looking through

2.

Д

return

of

the nationalities

of

those

Police Officers who have bun

punished

or dismissed for

drunkness, I find that the bestal

element in the Force is not this

most temperate-

3.

For this, and other reasons,

I think it would be well not to

recruit the Force solely in Scotland

but to try and get

men

occasionally

+

609

from the Irish constabulary-

4

Provision is made in the

Estimates to meet this expenditus.

I have the bonos to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most Obedient,

Humble Servant,

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