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informed the Captain Superintendent

of Volice that in accordance with

the

recommendations

mendations of the

Committee in

paragraph 28. I

left it to his discretion "to put

duty

two thirds of the Police on or not at night, as might be

time

a

better

"necessary, expressing at the same.

my hope that, by distribution of the Force, he would 1 & be able to check the robberies with

-violence committed by bodies of

frequently armed, which

men,

have been so unusually frequent

for

for

No. 46. in

some time past. I referred

in my despatch of 8th February last

to the

very

important increase in

the number of these offences

during the past year.

The hard

and fast order that two-thirds of the Police were to be put on duty

from 10 PM. to 6 am, was given

in the

1879, and has been in year existence ever since. I quite

I quite agree

with the Committee that it is.

unwise to fetter the hands of the

Wead of the Voliec Force by such a regulation which leaves him

discretionary

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