THE POLIICE FORCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 11 February 1913, Page 2

THE POLIICE FORCE.

IMPORTANT CHANGES. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 10. Important new regulations in regal'd to administration and control of the police force will appear in a supplementary Gazette to-morrow. One of these deals with the personnel. Owing to the growth of work at the four chief centres the inspectors are unable to devote as much time to supervision as is desirable, and to remedy this it is proposed, the Minister of Justice stated to-night, to make the chief police officers in the four centres—lnspectors Ellison, Kelly, Mitchell, and Dwyer—superintendents, and the following promotions and transfers will take place in consequence of the change in rank of the present inspectors Sub-inspector Hendrcy will dome to Wellington and act as inspector under Superintendent Ellison; Sub-inspector McGrath, of Christchurch, will go to Auckland as inspector, under Superintendent Mitchell; Senior-sergeants Johnston and McKinnon will be promoted to the rank of sub-inspectors and will take the place of sub-inspectors who are being promoted. Senior-sergeant Johnston going to Auckland and Sell ior-sergeant McKinnon going to Christchurch. There arc a number of vacancies in the ranks of the sergeants, caused by deaths, retirements and promotions. These will bo filled shortly, and probably before the end of the present month there will be increases of pay in various grades of the service, which, with the changes mentioned, will come into force on April 1. .