124 THE POLICE AND MAGISTRATES. 



more impartially administered. But it is argued 

 that in practice it is next to impossible to pre- 

 vent the two authorities clashing, and that they 

 can only work together if the one Department 

 can control the other. 



'' But experience in Sindh does not show that 

 there is any ground for this apprehension ; this 

 may partly be owing to the fact that in Sindh 

 there has always been at hand, in the governor 

 or the commissioner, an authority to whom 

 both the police and the magistrates are subor- 

 dinate, and to whom either can refer when they 

 chance to differ. 



'' It may not be amiss to note the general 

 character of the faults which, in this Province, 

 the one department is apt to find with the 

 other. 



'' The magistrates and their assistants, Euro- 

 pean and Native, are apt to charge the police 

 with exceeding their authority in arresting 

 persons on insufficient ground, keeping them in 

 custody on frivolous pretexts, without at once 

 bringing them before a magisterial officer for 

 examination, with neglecting to procure all the 

 evidence which may be forthcoming, and with 



