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mark. if even for a time, should we be
unable to find such an individual in the
Tsland.-The Policeassistents in Copenha-
gen receive each 1900 Rd they could here
be allowed $1,000 each. The Policemen
ought to be organized in 2 classes, is
at $3.50 and 90 at $500 p a. besides uni
forms. The chief duties of the Head PO-
licemen should be the direct training, con-
troll and stationing Of the Policemen, the
maintenance of order at fires and the like,
and assistance in the discharge of
writing work they should also train up
a number OF specially sworn men
to serve as volunteers in cases
of emergency. This class of Officials
receive salaries of 700, 600 and 500 Rd. in
Copenhagen; they ought here to have 5000
D.. uniform-money and free use of a horse.
We have taken as our guide the Police
Organisation in Copenhagen although it
must of course in almost every respect be
beyond the extent of our local demands
but we have nevertheless preferred that
instance to the many others we could have
taken, because we have there at once be-
fore us a perfect whole and because the
separation of the Executive and Admins
t%ratiye Poiicefunctions from the Judiciary
and Sentencing functions has there been car
ried into effect. The POlice-DireCtor had
agreeable to an Ordinance OF 1915 the
same power as our local Chief Magistrates
to institute actions; this power has IN
1868 been intrusted to the Vicepolicedi-
rector, who stands apart in almost every
other respect from the Police Function
aries and it is expressly promised that this
power will in time be recalled, and of
course placed elsewhere. The Police
Director is chief of the whole Police
Force, the same as our Superior Magis-
trates whenever crimes are detected, the
Police assistants or Policemen collect the
facts and evidences and make report there
of; the Vicepolicedirector Institutes action
or decides the matter, or else it comes be-
fore the public Police-Court. Now, if
that separation could be effected in COpen-
hagen, we cannot see why it could not be
done here too and in regard to the OBJ
lection raised against it, that the Police
Inspector will not be able to comply with
the dictates of &73 of the Colonial Law,
requiring every apprehendcd person to be
brought before a Judge before "a hours
after apprehension, and an award of detcn-
ton or relaxation to be given within 3 days
after apprehension, we can only reply, that
the Inspector will be having ample time to
comply with thai RECRUITMENT, if the sub
ordinate functionaries attend TO their duty
properly and transmit the reports on cases
without delay besides the Inspector must
of course visit all the Stations frequently,
and he could scarcely fail to be in time to
decide all those cases and whatever else
might transpire beyond the ordinary court
days; on the whole, the duties of the Police
Inspector will, when properly regulated,
and especially when all prosecution for
judgments in minor cases for debt, la
bour- transgressions and the like be removed
from the Police Court, be perfectly within
the strength and abilities of an active and
capable individual We beg in passing to
observe, that according to the Ordinance of
10th January 1868 all three of the Judi
ciary officials then in Office were bound
to be subject to alterations in the extent OF
their official duties and their salaries in the
event of a separation of the Judiciary
Functions from the Executive Functions;
two of those officials are still in office, the
one is secured a pension by Ordinance, and
If the other be employed elsewhere, we