A History of Police in EnglandLee, W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville)
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A History of Police in England
Lee, W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville)
Police -- England
The establishments within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Police
area that survived the reorganization of 1829 were[189]--
i. The Bow Street Horse-Patrol, under the control
of the Chief Magistrate at Bow Street.
ii. The police constables under the separate control
of the Magistrates of the Police Offices,
to which they respectively belonged, being
the following offices--Bow Street, Hatton
Garden, Union Hall, Worship Street, Lambeth
Street, Queen Square, Marlborough
Street, High Street Marylebone, and the
Town Hall Southwark.
iii. The River Police, under the control of the
Magistrates of the Thames Police Office.
iv. The City of London Police, under the control
of the Municipal authorities.
Each of these independent establishments carried out its police
functions according to its own peculiar ideas and local traditions. One
and all were jealous of their powerful neighbour at Scotland Yard; and
when they dared to do so, were not ashamed to countenance the petty and
spiteful tactics that their subordinate officers lost no opportunity
of indulging in.
It will be remembered that a short supplementary Act[190] had
contemplated the transference of the powers possessed by the Chief
Magistrate at Bow Street over the Horse Patrol, to the Metropolitan
Police Commissioners. This intention was not given effect to at the
time, the Patrol being left under the command of its old chief, Mr Day;
and the Act was repealed in 1833.[191] It was not until October 1836,
or more than seven years after the passing of Peel's measure, that the
Horse Patrol became an integral part of the Metropolitan Consolidated
Police, an amalgamation which, besides increasing the actual efficiency
of both forces, effected an annual saving of more than a thousand
pounds.[192] The horse-patrolmen became mounted constables, being
attached as such to the exterior divisions, where the beats were long;
and this arrangement has been continued to the present day.
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