CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 210

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One

of the contributing

of the

grave

Scandal

connection wists the bribery and corruption which occurred

in 1844

was this very want of supervision. In a

morandum wirich é

wrote

in 1847 on the subject the prevention of corruption in the

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Police force, and which

I observe was not sent to the

I

}

Stake I cretary of

pointed

out that the defects in the administration of the European Contingent which had probably tended to favour the growth of corruption were

re (a) laxness of discipline (and I may say

I took charge of

the force discipline was.

very siack).

that when

(b) Want of the owledge of Chines

on the part of Officers –

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(2) The promotion of subordinali. Officers to the rank of executive

officer.

(d) The placing of tor much responsibility

LL

te trands

Suspensors. —

Aus

recon

of

the

Defective.

ended

inter alia, that the Detective

staff should always be under

the immediate supervision

aid

Contive

Officers, and

the revival-

of

of one of the Excentive strongly urged

the port of Assistant Superintendent of Police which had existed many years befor

I submit that nothing

has occured since. to render

this additional' appointment

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conry.

On the contrary siver this recommendation was made.

Detective staff has been considerably increased, and

the

The

entirely

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