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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6094, 10 March 1891, Page 2

Nkw lirooiiiH sweep clean, and, apparently, it in the intention of Mr Seddon to carry out the adage. Tho following from tho Wanganui Herald may bo tr.kui iis the shadow of coming evonts: — Every man (says our ministerially iusnired contemporary) who enters the polico force of the colony flhov.lfl havo un incentive to riso, and an awuraiyijo that assiduity unci efficiency will moot with duo recognition ut head-quarters,'where at a very different sentiment prevails. A continuance of the present system will nuMiredly drivo the best men out of the force, and prevent liny but iul'onnr ones from applying for employment, However, wo feel sure Mr Seddou will go into the

whole subject and effect a thorough and salutory change before long. Tbo head of the force should bo one tru'ned to the work and know it in all its branches, instead of being, as at present, an ex-militury officer whose sole idea feeme to be, thut the men should be as nearly automatic as it is possible to make them, instead of smart, capable officers, well versed in all that pertains to the prevention and detection of crime As Inspector of Prisons Captain Hume brought previous experience, and even with that advantf ge has not been an unqualified success, or proved better fitted for the poeition, than men who have served a long apprenticeship in the colony, might reasonably be expected to have done. As head of the police force, with no previous experience of the work, it can hardly be wondered at that he has failed to make his mark and that the men are dissatisfied and discouraged.