New Commissioner
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Fiji Polce Force
New Commissioner and New Methods
WITH the arrival of a new Commissioner of Police, Mr. R.
T. H. Beaumont, wide reorganisation is taking place in the Fiji Police Force.
It aims at the general improve ment of the Criminal Investigation Department which has been taken away from the control of the Senior Superintendent Southern District and has been set up as a separate department under a senior super intendent who will be responsible direct to the Commissioner.
In addition special training courses in criminal investigation have been set up. Linked with the CID is a fingerprint expert recently appointed. He has had consider able experience in New Zealand and already his services have had good results.
Eight Land Rovers, a personnel carrier and 12 motor cycles have arrived to strengthen the Force.
Some of the Land Rovers have radio equipment.
A motor cycle patrol will operate on Viti Levu country roads to supervise traffic. No longer will it be a case of out of town out of sight.
An officer formerly stationed in Suva who has completed a traffic
training course in England will train the new patrols when he arrives in the Colony shortly. t Mr. Ronald Powell, with assistants and equipment, left Rarotonga aboard Charlotte Donald early September to transfer live mother-of-pearl shells from Manihiki atoll to Pukapuka, as an
experimental scheme to establ< shell in Pukapuka lagoon.
The Maria del Mar is scheduj to sail for Wallis and Futr islands towards end of Octol< These islands have been with: shipping communication with M Caledonia for seven months, sential commodities are in sli supply.