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explain the regulations and statutes, and give lectures on practical Police work, preparation of reports, &c. After the first month, in addition to the above, the probationers shall attend the Court during the hearing of the Police cases, and shall each patrol with a Constable on beat at least four hours out of each twenty-four hours for ten days prior to being permanently appointed.

(10.) The Inspector of the district shall arrange the hours for the classes, lectures, drill parades, &c., but care must be taken that the men are kept fully employed throughout the whole day.

(11.) In addition to the foregoing, the Police Regulations relating to barracks, so far as applicable to the training-depot, are to be observed.

(12.) Any probationer acting in disobedience of the foregoing regulations, or in any other way misconducting himself, will be liable to instant dismissal.

(13.) On one day in each week the probationers shall be instructed in first aid from 8 to 9.30 p.m. by a lecturer appointed by the St. John's Ambulance Association.

(14.) On Saturdays their duties shall cease at 2.30 p.m., when, if not required for any special duty, they may be granted leave of absence by the Sergeant in charge.

(15.) On Sundays their duties will be : Fatigue, 7 to 8 a.m., when they may be relieved for the rest of the day, at the discretion of the Sergeant in charge.

Detectives.

228. Members of the Force employed as Detectives should possess superior intelligence and be men of good judgment, tact, aptitude for gaining an influence over others, untiring patience and courage, and especially strict integrity. A Detective should have the power of self-control and close observation, and should be practised in the art of eliciting information. He will frequently be in possession of secret information, and unless he possesses the power of keeping his own counsel, even in the presence of his most trusted friends, his efforts may result in failure.

229. Detectives shall be subject to the same discipline as other members of the Force, and, although their principal duty is the detection of crime and the arrest of offenders, it shall be their duty to report any breach of the law that is brought under their notice, so that the general Police may take any action that is necessary.

230. It should be the object of a Detective to avoid everything that tends to excite distrust and suspicion or expose himself to misrepresentation. If he conducts himself so as to lead to a suspicion that he is untruthful there will be little confidence in his integrity and good faith, and his usefulness will, in consequence, be materially impaired.

231. Detectives shall be under the control of the officer in charge of the stations at which they are doing duty, and as, being dressed in plain clothes, they may be required to produce the authority under which they are acting, each shall be furnished with a warrant-card for the purpose, signed by the Commissioner.

232. A warrant-card must on no account be transferred from one Detective to another, nor will warrant-cards be issued a second time. They shall be numbered consecutively as issued, and on any member of the Detective branch leaving that branch of the Force his warrant-card shall be cancelled. Each member of the Force will be held strictly responsible for the proper care of the warrant-card issued to him, and upon no account is he to let it go out of his possession.

233. Any Detective who through neglect or carelessness loses his warrant-card shall be severely punished. He must immediately report the loss to his officer, and unless he gives a satisfactory explanation as to the cause of the loss he shall be at once suspended from duty until the charge against him of neglect has been disposed of.

234. Warrant-cards are the property of the Government, and must be returned with other appointments by members leaving the Force. In the event of the death of any Detective care must be taken to secure his warrant-card and transmit it to the Commissioner without delay.

235. Warrant-cards shall be issued only to members of the Detective Force who are on the permanent staff. To those on probation, or persons employed on occasional duty, a memorandum shall be given by the officer in charge. This must be given up on the holder returning to ordinary duty or when he is appointed to the permanent staff.

236. Any instance in which any improper use has been made of the documents thus issued to members of the Detective Force shall be at once reported to the Commissioner.

237. When a Detective is doing temporary duty at a station where there is no officer or Sergeant, the nature and extent of his communications to the Police at the station must to a great extent be left to his own judgment and discretion, but he will be held strictly responsible that the public interest does not suffer through undue reticence on his part. He must conduct his business in such a manner as not to clash with the action of the general Police. He must keep the member of the Force in charge advised of his absence from and return to the station, and, as far as may be expedient, of the duties on which he is engaged. There will, however, occasionally occur cases in which entire secrecy is desirable.

238. If the Detectives act so as not simply to obtain but to deserve the aid and co-operation of the general Police, there will generally be no difficulty in detecting crime and tracing out offenders who, to escape detection, have fled from town to country or from one part of the Dominion to the other; and it is expected that the general Police will consider it imperative upon them to afford every information in their power to the detective Police, and to facilitate in every possible way the proper discharge of their particular duties.

239. With a view to the detection of crime in their respective district, Detectives must endeavour to acquire a knowledge of the members of the criminal class, must watch their movements, and promptly communicate particulars of the same and other necessary information to their officers.

240. In reporting the particulars of inquiries conducted and arrests made, and generally of the steps they have taken, Detectives must not omit to include the names of other members of the Force who have been engaged with them in the same duties, or on whose information they have effected the arrest.

241. Detectives are not to withhold from their superior officer any information they may be possessed of relating to their duty.

242. The Chief Detective or Detective in charge shall keep a diary of the duties performed by each man under his charge. The duties may be posted up by each officer, but the Chief or other Detective in charge shall see that they are properly posted and details of duty fully stated.

At stations where there is a commissioned officer the Detective diary shall be placed before him for inspection every week.