128 PAYMENT OF POLICE. 



most valuable detectives, for instance, are men 

 wliOj from deficiency of education, or limited 

 capacity in other respects, are quite unfit for 

 tlie higher posts in the general police establish- 

 ment, and who would, under the ordinary 

 Indian system, be ineligible for any post higher 

 than that of an ordinary police peon. Here 

 such a man may be remunerated at a rate cor- 

 responding to his utility as a detective police- 

 man, and be placed above the temptations 

 which, in India, would generally beset a man 

 whose sagacity furnished the evidence on which 

 conviction or acquittal, in trials of great im- 

 portance, might depend. 



'^One of the principles of Sir C. Napier's 

 system, which has been too much neglected in 

 all bodies of Indian police, is that the policeman 

 should always be better paid than he would be 

 in his native place, so that the post of policeman 

 should be an object of ambition to the class 

 from which he was drawn, and always superior 

 to that of a day labourer. The gradual rise in 

 wages and prices in Sindh is now fast neutralis- 

 ing Sir Charles' intentions in this respect, but the 

 principle is one the soundness of which is beyond 

 doubt, and should always be kept in view. 



