+---+---------------+----+----+-----+------+------+-----------+ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | +---+---------------+----+----+-----+------+------+-----------+ | A | Whitehall | 1 | 2 | 14 | 96 | 113 | 5,893 | | B | Westminster | 1 | 4 | 18 | 145 | 168 | 51,618 | | C | St James | 1 | 4 | 16 | 167 | 188 | 94,418 | | D | Marylebone | 1 | 4 | 18 | 147 | 170 | 85,040 | | E | Holborn | 1 | 4 | 16 | 147 | 168 | 73,208 | | F | Covent Garden | 1 | 4 | 16 | 145 | 166 | 61,618 | | G | Finsbury | 1 | 4 | 20 | 210 | 235 | 102,561 | | H | Whitechapel | 1 | 4 | 18 | 168 | 191 | 111,382 | | K | Stepney | 1 | 6 | 28 | 262 | 297 | 113,516 | | L | Lambeth | 1 | 4 | 18 | 168 | 191 | 45,646 | | M | Southwark | 1 | 4 | 16 | 168 | 189 | 78,169 | | N | Islington | 1 | 4 | 24 | 222 | 251 | 74,455 | | P | Camberwell | 1 | 4 | 19 | 195 | 219 | 64,967 | | R | Greenwich | 1 | 4 | 20 | 182 | 207 | 72,540 | | S | Hampstead | 1 | 4 | 22 | 190 | 217 | 70,260 | | T | Kensington | 1 | 4 | 20 | 148 | 173 | 49,668 | | V | Wandsworth | 1 | 4 | 20 | 146 | 171 | 57,532 | | +---------------+----+----+-----+------+------+-----------+ | | Totals | 17 | 68 | 323 | 2906 | 3314 | 1,212,491 | +---+---------------+----+----+-----+------+------+-----------+ This table shows at a glance how rapidly the parochial police was giving ground before the advancing battalions from Scotland Yard. In less than twelve months, in place of the five districts originally taken over, we find practically the whole of London and its suburbs policed by the new constabulary. The skeleton of this force's organization is also indicated in the above table, the details only require to be filled in. The Metropolitan Police District, it will be seen, was divided into seventeen Police Divisions, each designated by an appropriate local name, and by a letter of the alphabet. These Divisions were then divided into Sub-divisions, Sections, and Beats. There were eight Sections in a Division, and eight Beats in a Section. In every Division a Police-Station was provided, in as central and convenient position as possible, where the business of the Division was conducted on a plan approved by Scotland Yard, and common to all alike. The Constabulary force was organized in police companies, one company to a Division, under the command and direct supervision of its officer, the Superintendent. Furthermore, each company was split up into sixteen parties, each party consisting of one Sergeant and nine men, four Sergeants' parties being equal to one Inspectors' party. To put it in tabular form--