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munication with the commissioner, is generally- 

 able to afford him. 



'' The chance of the police and magisterial 

 authorities coming into unseemly or unneces- 

 sary collision is, in practice, much diminished 

 by the circumstance that the police are in no 

 way exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction of 

 the magistrates' and other courts of justice ; 

 though no sentence against a policeman can be 

 carried out till intimation of it has been given 

 to the lieutenant of j^olice, and opportunity 

 allowed for a reference to the captain of police, 

 and, if he thinks it necessary, to the commis- 

 sioner. 



" This is found to be on the one hand an 

 effectual check upon the police, while, on the 

 other, it, to a considerable extent, protects 

 policemen against cabals or too severe punish- 

 ment for mistakes committed in the zealous ]oer- 

 formance of their duty. 



'' One excellent feature in the Sindh j)olice is 

 the separation into different branches, protective 

 and detective, which affords an opening for the 

 employment of every description of character 

 likely to be useful to the police : some of the 



