Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 351, 23 December 1891 — The Efficacy of het Police. [ARTICLE]

The Efficacy of het Police.

An instance is of record in yesterday morning's Advertiser where it is clearly-shown, how efficient and how much her Majesty's police force under the management of her shecial choice, are to be depended on in the maintenance of order and the prevention of crime, and the arrest of offenders. So deeply absorbed are the heads of this Deapartment in watching libels against newspapers and in prepairing and drilling the police for soldiers against revolutionists, and Pearl Harbor annexationists that they have entirely forgot the object for which that department was instituted and the duties of the chief and the men belonging to it. It does seem as though that the appointment of favorites into office through royal patronage, has encouraged allkinds of irregularity and disregard of public duties and responsibilities. Turning our attention to the re-

marks of the P. C. A, on the conduct and association of the chief of Police we cannot help feeling the great necessity of instituting the system of popular vote in the selection of the executive, adminstrative and judicial officers of the Kingdom, as the only and most legitimate way of doing away with existing evils in this community. The execution of the law and its impartial administration are the main supports that give value and character to a government, and when these are weak and partial it is the province of the Press to criticise the action of either and for the public to take the proper and legitimate steps to correct the evil.