This force of just over 3,000 men was distributed among the following divisions at the close of 1916:— ---------+---------------------------------------------------------- Division | Sub-divisions or Sections ---------+---------------------------------------------------------- A | Colaba, Fort South, Fort North, Esplanade B | Mandvi, Chakla, Umarkhadi, Dongri C | Market and Dhobi Talao, Bhuleshwar and Khara Talao D | Khetwadi, Girgaum, Chaupati, Walkeshwar E | Mazagon, Tarwadi, Kamathipura, New Nagpada, Mahalakshmi, | Jacob’s Circle F | Parel, Dadar, Matunga, Sion G | Mahim, Worli H and I | Harbour and Docks L | Head Quarters Armed and Unarmed Police M | Mounted Police N | The Government Dockyard and The Criminal Investigation Department (formerly the K division). With the appointment of Mr. F. A. M. H. Vincent as Deputy Commissioner, C. I. D., and the increase in its personnel, the Criminal Investigation Department entered upon a period of remarkable activity. The staff was divided into four branches—Political, Foreign, Crime, and Miscellaneous—each in control of one or more Inspectors; work-books were introduced, which fixed responsibility upon individual officers for cases entrusted to them for inquiry and served as a check upon delay in the submission of final reports of investigations; a confidential strong-room was provided, and the card index system and upright filing of records were substituted for the old methods in vogue at this date in most official departments. In addition to the investigation of cases, some of the more remarkable of which will be mentioned hereafter, the department made confidential inquiries, often of a delicate character, into political, religious and social movements; it scrutinized plays for performance licenses, amending or rejecting those that were objectionable; it took vigorous action under the Press Act, confiscating on occasions as many as twenty-one thousand copies of proscribed books; it maintained a constant watch upon the arrivals and departures of steamers, assisted the Excise authorities, collaborated with the police of other districts and provinces, supervised and, if necessary, prohibited the songs sung by the _melas_ at the annual Ganpati celebration, and performed an immense amount of confidential work in connexion with the Muharram. It also assisted or secured the repatriation of all manner of destitute persons stranded in Bombay, including English theatrical artistes, Arabs belonging to French territories, ladies from Mauritius, Bengali seamen, Pathan labourers expelled from Ceylon, and deportees from the Transvaal.