Police Tls.713,893.—The Police estimate, inclusive of expenditure on the Gaol which la now officially re-incorporated in the Police Department whereof it is a component part, is more than double that submitted for public sanction three year ago. Such is the upshot of the riot of 1905, of the abortive attempt to raise an Indian Force of a thousand men, and of the incidents which led to the formation of the Police Enquiry Committee. The comparative figures showing the proposed constitution of the Force are not without interest, and should go some way towards restoring that feeling of security and confidence in its "first line of defence" which the Comunity formerly possessed, but which during the period intervening was severely shaken, Budget for 1905. Budget for 1908 Officers 2 1 Foreigners 120 267 Indians 251 564 Chinese 729 998
1,102 1,836
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