DETECTIVES.

Canterbury Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 6, 16 March 1874, Page 38

DETECTIVES.

1. The Detectives, although subject to the same discipline, are in most other respects a distinct body of the Force, their duties being to detect, rather than prevent, crime.

2. They are under the control of the Chief Detective, whose office is in Christchurch, and who receives his orders direct from the Commissioner.

3. Detectives when stationed in out districts will correspond direct with the Chief Detective in Christchurch; but, although they look to himfor orders, they will be under the control of the Officer in charge of the District in which they may be stationed, so far as his orders do not clash with those they receive from the Detective Office at Christchurch.

4. If this system is properly carried out with the view to the interests of the public, there should be no difficulty in detecting crime, and tracing out offenders, who to escape detection have fled from town to country, or from one district to another; and it is expected that the Preventive Police will consider it imperative upon them to afford every information in their power to the Detective Police, and to facilitate in every possible way the proper discharge of their particular duties.

5. The Detective Force is formed by selecting from the Preventive Police such persons as may be considered suitable for detective duty; they are employed on trial as supernumeraries, during which time they receive the pay of ordinary constables, and if _ reported favorably of by the Chief Detective, they are promoted to the rank of Third-class Detective. Although this is a general rule, candidates who from previous habits, experience, or other reasons may appear to be particularly adapted for Detective duties, may be taken on as supernumeraries without having served in the Preventive Police, and if after due trial they are approved of, are promoted in the usual manner.

6. In reporting crime, the Rules which appear at page 73, under the head “ Criminal Offence,” will apply to the office of the Chief Detective as well as to the Commissioner’s and. the head quarters of each of the Districts’

7. No further detail of Detective duty is here given, as the members of that branch of the service will from time to time receive such instructions as are necessary for their guidance from the Chief Detective.

8. The foregoing Regulations shall be read and construed with and as part of the regulations which appear in the “ Manual of Police Regulations,” for the guidance of the Canterbury Constabulary Force, framed under the third clause of an “ Ordinance to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Constabularv Force, Session VII., No. 2.” R C. SHEARMAN, Commissioner of Police.