POLICE AND PRISONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13836, 23 February 1909, Page 6

POLICE AND PRISONS.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 22. The Minister for Justice (Hon. Dr Frndlay) and the Commissioner (Mr W. Dinnie) are busily engaged at present in revising the police regulations which date back some 25 or 30 years. One immediate effect of the revision was the promotion of a chief detective (Mr McGrath) to the position of sub-inspector. " I propose to treat the two brandies of the service as one " said the Minister in conversation with a reporter. "If a

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chief'detective has the necessary qualifications his promotion to a sub-inspec-torship will be as possible as the promotion of a man in the other branch of the service. I am not saying that the practice previ&usly in vogue of treating the detective branch as a separate entity entirely imposed any hardships. I do not know whether any hardship resulted but it is only fair to the commissioner to sav that he recognised the fairness and advisability of this course being taken." . The subject of prison reform was taking lip a largo portion of his (Dr V mdlay's) time at present. He had made a careful and exhaustive inspection of the prisons in the four centres and was now devising a scheme of classification, which he proposed to have thoroughly criticised bv experts and finally. submitted to the Government for consideration. The Minister frankly acknowledged that the problem was a most difficult one, but he is busily engaged in making himself familiar with the system in vomie in England and America and elsewhere, and with the theoretical and historical literature on the subject.