For this purpose all that is required is the interposition
of an officer between the Thanadar and the magistrate, in the same
way as the Sadr Amin is now interposed between the Munsif and the
Judge.[18] On an average there are, perhaps, twelve Thanas, or police
subdivisions, in each district, and one such officer to every four
Thanas would be sufficient for all purposes. The Governor-General who
shall confer this boon on the people of India will assuredly be
hailed as one of their greatest benefactors.[19] I should, I believe,
speak within bounds when I say that the Thanadars throughout the
country give at present more than all the money which they receive in
avowed salaries from government as a share of indirect perquisites to
the native officers of the magistrate's court, who have to send their
reports to them, and communicate their orders, and prepare the cases
of the prisoners they may send in for commitment to the Sessions
courts.[20] The intermediate officers here proposed would obviate all
this; they would be to the magistrate at once the _tapis_ of Prince
Husain and the telescope of Prince Ali--media that would enable them
to be everywhere and see everything.
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