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
X. To obtain accurate Information, by means of regular
returns from Clerks of Assize, Clerks of the Peace, Keepers
of Prisons, Houses of Correction, Penitentiary Houses, and
other places of Confinement; and to have constantly in view
the state of delinquency in the Metropolis, and in every
part of the country; preserving such accounts in registers
for the purpose of reference, as occasions might arise to
render them useful to public Justice.--To assist the acting
Magistrates in Town and Country by conveying all useful
information applicable to their local situations,
respecting the commission of crimes, and the detection of
offenders, and which might tend to the prevention of
disorders, or offences meditated against the Laws.
XI. To watch the proceedings of the herds of criminal
delinquents who generally leave Town every year in the month
of March, after the drawing of the English Lottery, for the
purpose of attending _fairs_, _races_, and other places of
amusement and dissipation in the country, carrying with them
quantities of _base Money, and EO Tables_, with a view to
commit frauds on the unwary--And to give notice to the
Select local Magistrates, that they and their officers may
be upon their guard in defeating the nefarious designs of
these miscreants, who are often disguised as farmers and
labourers, the better to enable them to effect their
purposes, by cheating and stealing, particularly _horses_,
to the great loss and injury of the country.
XII. It is recommended by the Select Committee of the House
of Commons, that the Commissioners of this Central Board
should have it in their power to distribute rewards to
Constables or others for meritorious services, through the
medium of the Magistrates of Police, and to use such other
means as should best promote the ends of Justice, and the
general utility of the Institution to the community.
XIII. Under the direction of the principal Secretary of
State for the Home Department, these Commissioners should
avail themselves of the knowledge their situation would
afford them of the degree of depravity and danger attached
to the character of the different convicts; to select such
as they thought proper objects for transportation to New
South Wales; and to follow any other instructions they may
receive for oeconomizing this branch of the criminal
Police of the nation, so as, if possible, to reduce the
annual expence.
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