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A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis, by the Editor of 'the Cabinet Lawyer'.
A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis by the Editor of 'the Cabinet Lawyer' Author:John Wade General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 42 CHAPTER III. POLICE ESTABLISHMENTS. Origin and Progress of the Police of the Metropolis. -- . Number, Salaries, and Organization of the Police of the City of London. -- Police of the City of Westminster. -- Police of the Out-Parishes and Vicinity of the Metropolis. -- Government Police, including the Nine Public Offices and the Bow-Street Patrol. -- Borough of Southwark. -- Total Number and Expense of the Metropolitan Police. Legislation may either proceed on general principles, with a view to prospective contingencies, or it may act under present circumstances, and its measures be framed solely to control existing evils. Which of these modes of procedure is best adapted to meet the exigencies of society, forms too theoretic an inquiry to be entertained in this place. The measures applicable to the police of the metropolis appear to have been generally framed on the latter principle, and intended to control existing inconveniences rather than to establish a general and permanent system of civic regulation. It follows that changes in manners, the increase in commerce and population, and the extension of local boundaries, have constantly required new measures of regulation, and that from an early period the government of the capital has formed an important subject of legislative inquiry and interference. The earliest police enactment is the 13th Edward I. A. D. 1285, called Statuta Civitatis, London, and which, among other preventive measures, enjoins that no one shall appear abroad, with sword and buckler, or in any other manner, after curfew tolled at St. Martin's- le-Grand. This act applies on...« less