place in the Accountant's Office". He states that he exercised such checks as he deemed to be sufficient
but they appear to have been practically valueless and it is clearly evident that, as the Acting Treasurer has stated in his letter above referred to, the financial side of the Police Department had for many years ben administered on a system that was in many respects thoroughly bad; and that there appears to have been an almost complete absence of affective control by the Captain Superintendent over the work of the Accountant together with a lack of co-operation, operating as a controlling influence, between the Pulice Dept. and the Treasury. I cannot but consider that Mr. Messer is seriously to blame for permitting these conditions to continue, apparently throughout the tenure of his post as Captain Superintendent, for, in my opinion, the defalcations were rendered possible by his failure to discharge that responsibility which, as he indicates in the concluding paragraph of his minute, properly rests with the Head of the Department.
(I am sorry that, owing to pressurs of other work, I have kept these papers so long.)
es.
8.6.21
Mr. Grindle
I would tell the Gov. that the S. of
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S. is advised by the D.C.A. as in the minute above
and that he regrets that he can only express
his concurrence in Sir E. Stephenson's views.
Ask for the Gov.'s obsons on the case, and
esp. as to what disciplinary measures are
called for, and whether Mr. desser can be
rebined in the post of Treas., in view of his
apparent unfitness for an appointment invol-
ving financial responsibility.
Make our desp. Conf.
A.E.C.
13.5.21
G.8 19.6.
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