Land : oppy Detective Officer's) Special Report. Metropolitan Police Office, SCOTLAND YARD, June 29. 182 1872 to report with 295 reference to the attached correspondence relating to Thomas Fitzroy River; that Fitzroy Suguay has been made at the Home Office nothing is known there. of Mr Rice. Mor Everest suggested that MW Redgrave, the former Chief Clerk at Home Office, should be seen. I saw this gentleman yesterday at Thursley near Godalming and he informed me that no Superintendent or any other officer of Police was ever attached to the Home Office, and that the Secretary of State never sent any officer of Police to assist him in the forming or organising of a Police force anywhere. That previous to the formation of the Metropolitan Police, when it was necessary to send a Police Officer to any part of the country, a Bow Street Officer was always sent, but since the establishment of the police, no one but Metropolitan Officers are sent. Mr Redgrave does not know the name of Fitzroy at all. I have also examined the ...
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