THE POLICE FORCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12826, 27 July 1912, Page 2

THE POLICE FORCE.

; (Pet' Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night: An officer of tne local police I ' force, who has^a numHer of years of diligent and. creditable v service <ih; - the' force- behind him;' was two or three dayfc ago made- glad; by; the news that he had been selected for' promotion to a higher rank, but His pleasure was somewhat dashed. 1 lay the discovery that .the improvement m" rank meant for 'him a decrease of sixpence a, day m pay, AU the ;surrounding circumstjßJices go to show that the promotion' in ranjs was fully intended to lc« ; in:'tUe' nature. of reward for merit, and that the ojjScer has : merely landed by accident m a crack, m th 6 classification scheme' of the force. Thati " at aity' ' tiate, • W^i ' the view oxpressed by him to a Star representative when sounded' dri r the ' p"bint. ' "He was naturally leather reluctant to, say anything' $l'alP W But? lie YbiV ed an implicit 'trust thaVifte thing would be made right vi Sue cbtirseVwheri jt was ! observed iirth'e p'l'dbe i wftere t!h!ese things' are i^tifiejd: ' ; Apparently in' ' thVjiKst; to' redress some 'grievances 1 which "Have been found to press hardly, tHe' ranking scheme Has been tinkered m 's"pots without a careful re-adjustment of the whole to' make the addition fit smoothly, and heiice flaws such as , that mentioned above, 'ib is,- however, impossible to escajie the hopeful note that breathes through the titterances^of atl men "iii the service here that, .the appointment of Commissioner Cullen Ushers m the era when' the Department's" 4 top of the ladder administration will 1 always be m the hands of a- man who has been '*thrbujgh. 'the mijl."' It is recognised that much has to be itndone before his ■orehtive policy 6ari ■.bo" put into operation, but all who' have had experience of tlie Commissioner seem imbued with the ' coiivictibn 'that he will do more to make tile" ''Police Department a desirable place foi* efficient men than 'any number of Hoyal Commissions could effect. , , ;,, - •