This morning there were no escorts to take my prisoners to court. This meant I had to dash around at the last
moment trying to get an escort. First I
phoned the M.T. section up and they said they would supply a truck right
away. I then made haste to the Billet to
wake men who had been on duty up to midnight . Such men are excused duty up
to about 8.30am . Those on
duty after midnight are excused the whole of the following
morning. I managed to get two out of bed
who should have been up & dressed.
The court starts at nine we arrived about 9.30. We then found that another prisoner was
wanted so I took one of the chaps, borrowed Salphit’s car and dashed back to
the station to make out another release from prison order for this additional
prisoner. I was rushing around all
morning on escort duty myself as we could not get enough men to form an escort.
The S.P. payed the station a visit this afternoon, pulled everything
to pieces but put a very kind entry in the inspection book. After he had left B/I Pattle decided to give
us another lecture but failed hopelessly when B/I Coles came in and told him he
should not go down the Sukh.
After the S.P.’s little chat yesterday I decided to start putting my
house in order as he promised another visit within a few days when he expects
to find everything in the station, and especially my charge register, up to
date. I went through the whole of the
charge register from the Beginning of the year and filled in all the points
that were missing. These are not
important points – only such things as “date investigations were completed” “date referred to Magistrate.” |
| The Charge Room |
This afternoon a letter came from Division telling me to make a
summary of all the statements recorded in a Road Accident case in which proceedings
had been instituted. This is quite a big
job and to top it in bold letters was written “TREAT AS VERY URGENT” I
immediately set to work on it and by 5.15pm had half completed it. Then it
suddenly flashed into my mind that I was on gate guard at 6pm . Owing to
the shortage of men all employed staff have to do at least one night duty a
week. I have been granted the privilege of
the 6pm
– 12pm as this does not interfere
with my work.
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