A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
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3d. That the different High Constables should return to the
Commissioners of Police annually, after a change of Officers
has taken place, a list of the number of persons who compose
the Civil Force, under their direction in their respective
divisions; and regularly, every quarter, a list of the
Publicans, with such facts as have occurred, respecting
their orderly or disorderly conduct in the management of
their Houses.--The state of the Division with respect to
Prostitutes--to the situation of the Poor for the preceding
quarter, and their resource for employment.--The number and
nature of the offences committed in the District during the
preceding quarter, and the detections of the delinquents,
shewing how many offenders have been discovered, and how
many have escaped justice, and stating the means used and
using to detect such as are at large, charged with specific
offences within the division: so as to bring under the
review of the Central Board a clear statement of the
criminal Police in every part of the Metropolis on the first
day of each quarter, with such other information as the
Commissioners may require.
4th. It is humbly suggested, that the Salaries and
allowances to be paid to the _High Constables_ and
_parochial Chief Constables_ should be paid out of the
General Police Fund, under the Management of the Board, and
the gratuities and allowances to the petty Constables out of
the County Rate.
It might be expedient that the Stipend of the petty Constables should
be very moderate, and that their remunerations should, partly at
least, arise from _premiums_ and _gratuities_, granted by the Judges
and Magistrates, for meritorious services to the Public, _actually
performed_; for which there would so many opportunities occur, that no
fit man, acting as a Constable under such a system, and doing his duty
conscientiously, need be under any apprehension of obtaining a very
comfortable livelihood.
The invariable rule of rewarding, in every case where it can be made
appear that any useful Public service has been performed, would have a
most wonderful effect in preventing crimes: The expence, if
judiciously and oeconomically managed, need not exceed, in any
material degree, _the present aggregate_ of what is disbursed in
different ways, in all the branches of the Police and Criminal
Establishment; it might, in fact, be defrayed, as well as every other
charge, _by the Police itself_, under the direction of the _Central
Board_, hereafter more particularly alluded to, from the produce of
the _Licences_ proposed to be granted for regulating particular
classes of Dealers, by whose aid and assistance, in supporting Thieves
and Pilferers, such a system is rendered necessary.
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