THE POLICE FORCE

Southland Times, Issue 17267, 11 February 1913, Page 5

THE POLICE FORCE

NEW REGULATIONS.

PROMOTIONS. (Per Unite*! Press Association). WELLINGTON, February 10. Important new regulations in regard to the administration and control of the Police Force will appear in a supplementary Gazette to-morrow. One of these deals with the personnel. Owing to the growth of the work at the four chief centres the Inspectors are unable to devote as much time to supervision as is desirable, apd to remedy this it is proposed, the Minister of Justice stated to-night, to make the chief police officers in the four centres —Inspectors Ellison, Kiely, Mitchell, and Dwyer—Superintendents, and the following promotions and transfers will take place in consequence of the change in rank of the present Inspectors: Sub-Inspector Hendry will go to Wellington and act as Inspector under Superintendent Ellison ; Sub-In-spector McGrath, of Christchurch, will go to Auckland as Inspector under Superintendent Mitchell; Senior Sergeants Johnston and McKinnon will be promoted to the rank of Sub-Inspectors, and will lake the place; of Sub-Inspectors who are being promoted, Senior Sergeant Johnston going to Auckland, and Senior Sergeant McKinnon going to Christchurch. There are a number of vacancies in the ranks of the Sergeants caused by deaths, retirements, and promotions. These will be filled shortly and probably before the end of the present month. There will he increases of pay in various grades of the service, which, with the changes mentioned, will come into force on April Ist.