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the appointments should be reserved to Cadets. The Police

duties of the District Officer and Assistant District of-

ficer will as I have pointed out, be very secondary to

their other duties.

Indeed the object of appointing them

as Police officers at all, is simply to temporarily post-

pone the creation of an additional appointment, for which

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at present there is no adequate worth, in the New Territor-

ies.

The work of these district officers is essentially

of a nature which demands the training of a Cadet officer,

and specially a thorough knowledge of Chinese. On the

other hand except as,

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temporary expedient, and in order to

vest adequate authority in District Officers when inspect-

ing Police Stations &c. I am averse to Cadet Officers hold-

ing Police appointments, since they have not undergone the

special training in Police duties, and have no knowledge of

Hindoostani and Punjabi. I have therefore to recommend

to Your Lordship that both the District and Assistant Dis-

trict Officer should be temporarily vested with the powers

of an Assistant Superintendent of Police pending the crea-

tion of a separate Police post for which officers of the

Police only shall be eligible, and that these two appoint-

ments be reserved for Cadet Officers.

12.

In order to prevent the necessity

of two officers living in almost complete isolation, and

also

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