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: used if need be, for what would misconduct in the Police Force.

Hane might be Meadowd nany.

-why of There the cack should not be allowed, rate, or be taken before a Magistrate cases in which the party injured or aggrieved would not present, rule yet interest of discipline or of the good reputation of the Force be and which could not in the Court looked.

I cannot admit that in cases for which the law has provided a punishment that the Captain Superintendent should say :- "You have your remedy before the ordinary tribunal and the law has provided a punishment for the offence I will not therefore interfere."

I leg therefore submit that the Captain Superintendent of Police be informed that it is his duty to inquire into all these cases and to deal with them as laid down in the regulation, and as directed in the Colonial Secretary's letter dated 7th September 1885.

There would be an end to discipline if police constables knew the Captain Superintendent would not interfere.

Seth Edward J. Ackroyd
Acts. Attorney General
5th May 1886.

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62 : used if need be, for what would misconduct in the Police Force. Hane might be Meadowd nany. -why of There the cack should not be allowed, rate, or be taken before a Magistrate cases in which the party injured or aggrieved would not present, rule yet interest of discipline or of the good reputation of the Force be and which could not in the Court looked. I cannot admit that in cases for which the law has provided a punishment that the Captain Superintendent should say :- "You have your remedy before the ordinary tribunal and the law has provided a punishment for the offence I will not therefore interfere." I leg therefore submit that the Captain Superintendent of Police be informed that it is his duty to inquire into all these cases and to deal with them as laid down in the regulation, and as directed in the Colonial Secretary's letter dated 7th September 1885. There would be an end to discipline if police constables knew the Captain Superintendent would not interfere. Seth Edward J. AckroydActs. Attorney General5th May 1886.
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misconduct in

the Police Force.

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Hane might

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There would be an end to discipline if police constables knew the Captain Superintendent would not interfere.

seth Edward J. Ackroyd Acts. Attorney Genveal jik May

1886.

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