Show THE LONDON POLICE WHAT ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY T TORNEY WELLMAN OBSERVED ilia raise la fi me li CA vono 1116 thai 1 E n rn s 0 or 1 lilt ta from boiu I 1 po 0 lineal aull irol lotion timit ml ily UP epou 11 ifft during my to london I 1 spent con sider rable ablo tune time investigating the tile bolice i force of that citi city tile history of the tile london police irs I 1 rs yet to be written and a v ery very curious record indeed would be that of the tile suc ceMile I 1 hanges always in the direction of improvement m pro winch which have been made in the institution the discipline and the lie drea a of if the m metropolitan tro politan and city police since I 1 the lie torn foree established by net act 10 of georfe george IV commenced duty on oil sept 29 1829 the tile blundering and inefficient for foro 0 of police constables con lind by tins till time ail warded their sv swallow allow tailed coms co its ind hinr stovepipe hat bats the city authorities i dept ep ing for a very period in ili 1818 I 1 mi atod to provide the force with any ally weapon whatsoever excepting a lantern und a rattle even I 1 ven na as late I 1 tte as ar 1960 the metropolitan police force numbered only constables although the city bad had over kowm 3 COO inhabitants at present its total strength is U osa maintained at a cost of a little over cl 5 tills civilian arm was practically founded foil by the sec ond sir robert peel while home secretary and was Lt terly opposed in ili the by a large largo section of the public press the ad london police force once a national can seen lal dal liaa has now become however liow ter the par donable pride of every inhabitant of tb the I 1 city at the head of this army of police is a kinle commissioner called the chiff commissioner of police lie ile is appointed by the queen and holds his office for life A general in the army of twenty years blinding standing is always selected for the place some rome who has distinguished him elf for liis his executive e ability the present chief commissioner Is sir E edward dward bradford f ird K X C 13 K C S T WIIO alio organized the ting of cavalry some years ago his ilis salary 1 li 13 3 2500 aw or this commissioner vom missioner lias bas the appointment of three ami assistant coin commissioners in essl boners at a salary of 1 WO and allowances of about a year cir extra these a assistants are chosen from the ranks of barristers bar Nir wa alio have distinguished themselves for upward if t twelve years in ili the tile criminal courts next in rank come four chief con constables 11 tables who v ho likewise must bo be chosen from tho the list of army officers in lit good standing there is strictly no politics in any tiny of abec appointments appointment and they are all for life or during good beba behavior vior it would beem fitting to put nn an experienced army officer at the tile head hend of such a it body of men and fitting to join with sith him aa as hla his n three experienced criminal lawyers in addition to the U uniformed police there tin re arc are A detectives and WO 00 in mounted 0 anted police the department bleed breed al all their own horses and tiny they board in barry bar kii all bachelors belonging to the force at I 1 one shilling a week the 1 he pay p ly of an ordinary constable is from thirty to thirty tax shillings 7 50 to it w week ec L tile detectives detect i es or i receive hecei ve AIM M a year and aa advance for etall e ich year of ter vico foi for tin years and find thru advance forthe for the next fifteen yeam 3 ears aft er twenty five yeara service icea they are pea sinned for life on oil two thirds pay the s r gearins of police receive forty five shilling gh illings 1125 11 35 it 11 week vv eel and are only chosen ron roll the rinks ranks of constables con every everyone Jve one con coil with tile force excepting the tile coin coni iniss mim ioner loner and hii 1114 and tile four chief buc ritu rise in alio btty ico from rom the lowest ranka 0 no o ordinary oid inary policeman is allowed to carry a revolver excepting except ing in ili the suburbs where revolvers are handed to the men when s lien going out on oil duty and are inspected each morning to see if it any shot has liven ix wi fired lach bach officer must likewise report ii ach each use of his stick or truncheon there is almost no drunkenness found among the force most cf of the men are recruit from the country and are farmers tin ners sons son any policeman found intoxicated off bt rv ice ii is i i put back from two to three years in ili rank and pay and it if found drunk while ou 01 tiera service ice is discharged at oneo once any one visiting ti london for the fart time is stunned on week days clays by the tile tour billion of movement in its streets and the constant con eddies at all the great crossing crossings in the whirlpool of its business life such is BO no other city in the world can show I 1 iti 11 I 1 i that over vehicles pass the hank bank of E ni gland each day such it thing asa as a block stoppage or ori in ili the stream of v e hides for more than a moment is never nev er al nl owed to occur thanks to the skillful man argement of tho tile police under the present perfect system there is an officer at nearly every street corn corner erana and uny daiv er or cabman cab mall who adv advances ancee abard a yard beyond tho tile upraised liand of the officer may expect to have bave ills his number taken and is bertain to t have hav e n tw 0 pound pou nd flue fl ne to pay ieli I 1 f lie e drives d 11 vi i on his iq license la is forfeited e will iii is not lot a 11 ru rule simply for the tile law in id invariably fi mi forced and the consequence la is abao abou liili litte order and freedom from blocks the police seldom use force it is not necessary in ili a city where here the liwa laws are or en forced with unfailing promptness and cei dainty in consequence perhaps the most unruly clam of me men in tho the world thi the a condou tabbies cabbies stand in abio absolute lute awe of it the police this tills feeling is shared share 41 luell by all I 1 was assured on oil tin the bett best authority that there was not it dis orderly house or policy hop in the tile in ell tire city of 0 london with its COU giua le miles and its streets and anti roads ami miles niles in aggregate leng length til and find 01 ou ell its commonly ai f ii idon that there uie fire more lion there that in edinburgh more irish tain in ili dublin more JL jnes w than in pall und and more roman than in rom boni nothing is allowed lowel al to be sold in the way vi ay of either food or drink after 13 12 and every public restaurant or bar I 1 insist be lie closed by 1230 ahls rule is kept to tin the ery very minute or the license Is forcum d boboly once convicted of ven even t a Ill ilowit wit can call obtain a linw for a bar liar or public hou house in ill london the fidelity and ard I 1 ery of the tile boodon police were well shown in isai wile 11 couple uple of officers on till duty at the barlia Bien tary building discovered a liht d dyna dynamite mlle cartridge in the under tho tile hall ball in which vv aich the houle of coin coll at ut the time hit the avi two I 1 men nen st seized azell the tile cartr cartridge ai dge together I 1 and rim with it burning la wu t their he nr handi out 11 into ito th t v open courty courtyard nard IN w 11 lit Q rein reit it 4 il oded I 1 iolli ia men art crippes for ii life f both are am deaf 11 blind and one b bas is loat lost his reason abi were at once promote d to the rauk rank of MI ler giants and pensioned for life one yum wax tUM to windsor Vind sor castle vicere the e en herself with tile A al gr bert e t I 1 acdal tito offic er who was s coil 1 I iid II d t ti ibo the hospital s thell ll 11 en visited by b tile 1 beell lu in person who lio presented presen teil blin t atio I 1 e al albert bert franci Fralic ls I 1 L wellman lu in I 1 new clrk |