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Enclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 524 of the 10th. December, 1902.

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13 JAN 02

Minute by the Colonial Secretary.

.Your Excellency,

The Frecis prepared by Mr. Clementi at my

request shows the circumstances under which the various appointments

.complained of by the Cadets were made.

2.

At the time of Mr. Lewis' appointment no

Passed Cadet was available.

3.

The same may be said of Mr. Wodehouse's appoint

-ment. But I urged that appointment on the different ground that

Cadets should not be appointed to the Police Force unless they are

prepared to devote their careers to Police Works and not to look in

the ordinary course of events for promotion outside the Police force.

While Captain Superintendent of Police I had

2 Cadets appointed to the Force. No sooner appointed than they were

taken away for some other Department. No Police force can be properly

.officered by such hap-hazard arrangements, and I am sure Your Excel-

lency will agree with me that no one who appreciates the value of

experience.in. Police Work would ever think of dealing in such a manner

.with a Police Force.

But, as I found on the occasion of a recent

visit to the Colonial Office, the Secretary of State is advised that

there is no objection.to.a.man being.a Folice Officer for a couple of

years and then being transferred to some other Department, to returo

-perhaps for an interval to the Police and then after further intervals

spent in other Departments to be appointed to command the Police

Force.

I gave it as my opinion that I felt sure no

Police Officer in the World would agree with that view.

I still think that the appointment of Cadets

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