 Complete the following phrase:  Herchmer was a capable administrator, but being hot-tempered and overbearing, he gained a reputation as a tyrant during his tenure as commissioner. Nevertheless, the force under his command gained better benefits, living conditions, organization, and training, and more respect, with a marked improvement in esprit du corps. His personality earned him a number of political enemies, leading to charges of mismanagement that produced a judicial inquiry in 1892 which cleared him and culminated in his dismissal in 1900, while he was serving with the Canadian Army in 