Gen, Yen's Call for Loyalty and Good Service: Duty to the Public In the course of a lengthy instruction order to his mon, Gen, fang, Commissioner of and Woosung Poli sential to all of us in the discharge of our duties: Take good] care beforehand and you will have remedy in the end.
2, All officials must treat their subordinates fairly and make them understand rather than inflict severe penalties, 3." When off duty, keep away from mass or secret meetings.
Work hard and your salaries will be increased.
5. Clear your accounts with the merchants before the New Year as you will receive two months' pay in a couple of days.
In the case of petty pickpockets, who are driven to resort to that practice simply because of poverty and hunger, no severe penalties must be inflicted: They are to be given small sums of money and sent back to their homes, or they must be given a small amount of capital to enable them to sct up a retail business and become good and respectable citizens, The New Year is approach. ing, s0 all must toke special measures to preserve public peace and order.
Officers must explain to their subordinates the reasons why they have not been paid for so many months past and make it cleat to them that they will receive their wages in a day or two: care must be taken to see that such explanations are clear and that all understand.
The bamboo method of punishment shall not be resorted to when subordinate police are found neglecting their duties: Better methods should be adopted and such offenders must be made to understand that negligence will result in less trouble in future.
10, Special precautions must be taken against unauthorized meet ings, 11, Unemployment must found for the unemployed: a ccr~ tain confectionary factory have asked us to secure 100 workers for them.
12, Awards will be issued for merit among the police, especially raiding the dens of bad characters.
13. Police must pay special attention to the opium traffic and authorities must be notified in the event of any opium discoveries.
14, All district police officers must render regular reports to headquarters, showing the number of police in' the districts and the number of new ronds built or those under repair, as vell as changes of address, ete in order that the authorities may be able to determine on the number of new police that should be added to the force.
15, Special precautions muist_he taken against secret societies, dis-danded soldiers, armed robbers, Inappers and loafers generally.
16. Special attention should paid to banknotes circulated on the market, as numerous forged banknote discoveries have been made, so that the public might not or made to suffer as a re 17. Speciat detective patrols, must be distributed.
19, Special measures must be taken to suppress gambling and jum smoking.
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