DETECTIVE PROMOTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 6

DETECTIVE PROMOTIONS.

SEVEN SERGEANTS APPOINTED. The under-mentioned members of the' detective staff have been promoted to bo detective-sergeants, the appointments dating as from March 1:— m 'I'll 111 detective, Timaru. Mr. Alfred Edgar Sydney Ward, dctective, Duncdm. din^ 1 ' au Connolly, detective, DuneMr. Allan Cameron, detective, Invercargill. • Mr. John Walter Hollis, detcctivo, Auckland. Mr. Thomas S. C. Kemp, detective, .Napier, Mr. Henry George Hunt, detective, Dunedin. N These promotions take effect from the same date (March 1) as the recent motions to sergeant, in the uniform Dranch, so that detective and uniform sergeants will be listed in order of seniority. Eight uniform men were recently promoted to be sergeants, and now seven' plain clonics men have, been promoted. Detective-sergeant s in the New Zealand Police Force now 1111111 bet 14-, and there are five chief detectives. . The detective force, all told, sergeants 'and chief detectives included, numbers about forty. It is assumed that the promotions contemplated under the new regulations recently issued are now completed, and that men promoted in future in either branch of the force will be required first to pass a qualifying examination and to wait for vacancies. :