It-twaqqif tal-korp tal-pulizija fl-1812 u l-ftuh tal-ewwel ghases fl-1813

Abstract

Fil-ktieb tieghu Essays Governing Malta (1800-1813), Patrick Staines jittratta t-twaqqif ta' dak Ii hu sejjah "Magistracy of Police 1812". Staines jikteb hekk: "Despile the caution in Hobart's 1801 instructions against introducing radical changes in the modes of conducting Judicial and Police business, General Oakes did attempt to effect a major departure from past practice when he tried his hand at reforming the police structures. In setting up his Magistracy of Police in 1812, Oakes or his advisors, appear to have had three objects in mind. One was 10 detach the President of the Grand Criminal Court from his traditional responsibility for policing the Vallella district, and furthermore to free him or his administrative involvement in a host of licensing and other petty regulatory duties which had come to be regarded as the President's responsibility. A second was to relieve the Criminal Court in Valletta of its burden of dealing with minor police contraventions: a third object apparently was to bring about some degree of unification among the executive police establishments which had hitherto existed as separate units in the three judicial districls" (Staines, 2008, 297). Waqt Ii Staines jattribwixxi t-twaqqif tal-Korp ghas-sena 1812, fl-istess hin juri d-dubju tieghu jekk dawn ir-riformi tal-kmandant Hildebrand Oakes, bhala Kummissarju Civili, kellhomx success jew Ie. Dokumenti Ii rnexxieli nsib fl-Arkivju Nazzjonali juru car daqs il-kristall Ii dawn rna kinux ir-riformi izda verament f'din is-sena twaqqif il-Korp tal-Pulizija kif nafuh ilium. Jigifieri d-data u d-dokument prodott minn Vincenza Azopardi fil-ktieb tieghu Raccolta di Varie Cose (N.N., 1843,333) hu korrett.