| Show THE LONDON POLICE hoir the department is run across t 1 tile war water cs an unknown quantity quantify A fer lute resting statistics the work done by tho tile eon constables stables N Y sun i lomon lo june 28 rit r it waa was ju just st 2 in the morning and I 1 reckoned that ever since 10 of the last evening fifteen minutes had never fully elapsed without some case or other being brought to tha police stati station oti the station referred to is in bow street and is is the quarter of the E or holborn division no doub tone of the most important of the nineteen metropolitan divisions it contains 40 th jhc thc atar ameril 1 music halls and dancing rooms public houses ro re 81 beerhouses beer houses i it has todeal to deal with the rough porters por of covent garden market tho of drury lane and the gar and assa assassins of the thames embankment in the year 1882 it received telegrams grams s and sent 1480 1 a and nd business lias has inert increased ased since the strength of that division is is 1 superintendent 14 inspectors 54 police sergeants and find constables none of that nighta nights cases were very important the tile number of inspectors varies varies with every division each remains on duty for twenty four hours I ho ito to cansle can sleep epif if he finds time on the plank in theoffice the office not on a bed during the night the tile A or whitehall division has 62 of them tho the L or lambert div division haa has only 10 the total strength ision of the metropolitan police on december waa I 1 commissioner commissioner 2 assistant commissioners 1 director 25 superintendents inspectors sergeants and constables total horses this forc ehas been slightly increased since on account of the extra duties required to protect the capital against the misdeeds of the dynamiters dyna miters in ih 1878 a grand scandal occurred in the police circles it suddenly came to light that four of the best and most efficient detectives of scotland yard had been conniving wilh with a most enterprising gang of criminals A complete and thorough reform of the department was found necessary and the work was in ii trusted to mr vincent at that time there were only thirty detectives today to day there are of them on duty it would bo be well perhaps now to consider if advantage ought not dot to bo be taken of tho the vacancy created b by y the resignation of this intelligent and active official to condense and centralize tho the whole system however notwithstanding its defects the metropolitan police is still a very good and efficient body it does not suppress every malefactor nor yet frighten frig liten out of action the criminal classes but what police does it has not above all fill won great fame in its campaign cam laign against the feniane Fen ians but tho those ze Feni feniane fins are no ordinary oid inary customers besides they are specially organized to des feat the of the police while the tile metropolitan police is quite ui unprepared to meet them The flie few arrests made by the police in the malter ma ucros of bynam dynamite ito have been owing to informers to the treachery 0 onic conspirators not to the in and skill of tho the police think that a political police lie 0 exists here there is noth nothing bof the kind the same agents tint that t are set in pursuit of pickpockets pick pockets and other of offenders renders are employed to ferret out the d dynamiters dyna na miters A few irish detectives haye have been ben temporarily added to tho the ordinary staff at scotland yard on the ground of the tho presumed nationality of the tile last class of criminals but they act with and not independently of tho the metropolitan metro politan agents there in fact tho the whole is is no secret police thing is ta conducted with considerable publicity the detectives told off from ire land have hardly begun to enjoy tho the invigorating breeze of st georges channel channe before a detailed description of their persons reaches the parties it is their mi mission won to catch and surprise their announced byise arria arrival a at whitehall is watched by sharp eyes which complete for their own sake and the instruction st of friends the tile valuable knowledge already at hand band it would bo be wrong however to conclude from this that the criminal people have it all their own way and hold the metropolis quite at their mercy if the efforts of the police to discover the authors of many outrages too often fail ail f it is is but fust lust and neav necessary sary to add that their efforts to prevent outrages from being committed by active and steady watching arc ire far from being fruitless and the public would bo the surprised and for the matter motter of that tho tile police too at the number ot c aimes which the of a it wakeful wake ful constable at a presence certain certa n time ou oil a certain I 1 spot haa has nipped in the bud tt it must be remembered that the police district i in 11 atau metropolitan 1 eludes an area of statute aares acres inhabited by a population of souls in one year only the year 1882 houses were built forming new streets and one new square covering a distance of 75 miles and yards others besides dynamiters dyna na miters take advantage of the opportunities and temptations offered to evils doers by such au an agglomeration the total value of stolen property in 1882 amounted to an increase increase of if over 1881 but as the tile value of tho the property recovered was tho the total loss loss was only in 1882 as against in 1881 the fa facility which robbers enjoy in this country as to the disposal of stolen goods owing especially to the insufficiency of the acts relating to pawnbrokers pawn brokers not only serves as an incitement t to stealing but naturally minimizes tb the e chances of recovery the number of felonies committed in 1882 was while the apprehensions were tho the number of burglaries was the apprehensions 15 2 the number of house bre akings 1764 the apprehensions the number of burglaries es and housebreak ings through doors and windows left open and insecure was 1047 while the number of lar aenid through doors or windows left open was although the apprehensions made in 1882 in consequence of these crimes have been more numerous than during the prec preceding edin year this increase unfortunately f bortuna has not been in the same ratio as the increase in the crimes themselves there have been 10 cases of murder followed by 11 apprehensions and by only 4 convictions there were 85 manslaughters man followed by apprehensions and only 20 convictions vict ions there were attempts to murder shoot and cut followed by apprehensions and 83 con fictions there were 2752 larcen ies from the tile person exactly the same as in 1881 followed by apprehensions and convictions three convictions less than for the proceeding year there were 23 a esons arsons 20 7 convictions vict ions there were 48 forgeries against 77 in 1881 and 45 convictions cong vict ions a against 0 g ainest 52 in 1881 there were 24 rapes 24 apprehensions and 9 convictions the number of adults and children under 10 years of ago age were report cd ed to the police as lost or missing of the adults and of the children were found by the police the remainder re returned homo home or were found by their friends except excepts 54 of the adults who committed suicide and adults and 12 children who were never traced this is 3 rather a borad that no harm happened to a portion of those adults what has IBS become ot the 12 missing chi children I 1 dren there is another 9 grim jiin return 59 9 bodies of persons found dead and unknown were photo photographed grap led aut but not identified of prostitutes charged with annoying male pa passengers mengers 1460 were convicted 79 ires fires were attended by policemen persons were apprehended for or drunkenness and disorderly conduct dogs were seized by the he police of which only 1933 were claimed but thia this doe not cx exhaust blaust the work expected from the metropolitan constables they have to regulate tile traffic at every busy spot and facts taken at random can call give an all idea of what this duty amounts to at swallow place oxford st of omnibuses omni buses within on one hour of these carriages have been counted going westward and of them tum sou southward thwan constables C are taught to give the first lie help pin in cases of accident and this is no sinecure considering tb that atthe tho fatal ones that occurred in tho the streets of london in 1882 a amounted mounted to the efficacy attained by some of the p policemen linemen is shown by the interesting fact that in one division only tho the K or bow division forty five inspectors tors 13 sergeants and an d 19 con constables are possessed of certificates from the st john of jerusalem association they having passed the necessary examination on the subject of first aid to the injured one of those thom inspectors bandaged a broken leg so well not long ago ago that the surgeon burgeon who came afterward did not ta think link it necessary so alter anything in the dressing the police boats on the thames in 1882 v rescued 31 persons from dron drowning aning and picked up the dead bodies of 69 males 3 females and 6 newly born infants of which 73 identified and 25 buried as its unknown how many of those persons came to their death by foul means will probably remain an eternal mystery the perils to which the london policemen icamen icemen are exposed arc are not it few eol iw and as a rule they all go to the scratch like men I 1 have myself seen peen many incidents of magnificent bulldog tenacity on tho the part ot of some ot it them when in the execution of their duties against crushing odds A constable of the north or isling ton division pursuing a man who w be had just released himself from hia his handl hands after a terrible struggle is twice shot and wounded br by him yet ho he keeps up the hunt till til a last discharge kills him outright at 2 at night a well dressed man mounts lounts ri the parapet of waterloo bridge and throws himself into the river a young constable P 0 E jenkins sees it and without a seconds hesitation in his lie heavy a vy long coat and equipment di dives ives in in his turn from the bridge in hot pur knit buit and saves the plunger As v rule tho the tau constable is very kind and the instruction that he lie must not use his staff because the party arty in his custody is violent in behavior Ee behavior havior or language generally ene rally trains him lim to b be e a model el of patience economy can hardly be counted among the good features of theider thoi service considering that tho the total amount paid for it during the year ending in march 1882 wag was fab lab less than which waa made up by contributions from tho the treasury U ry theratus tho the rates and carriage licenses the Com Commissioner r e enjoys y B a salary of 1500 and the following f I 1 1 i y ain g yearly allowan allowances cei ya 00 for house U se rent 63 for keep of a horse and for traveling tray eling expenses |
