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15618 Q.

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be coulo go, without uniform, If a man has warrants for

four or five houses in a street, he goes to the first

house and all the other houses know, and all the people

are out of their houses.

15618

Dont you think that could be covered by having four or

five officers to ake a simultaneous raid ?

A.

Yes, if we had then.

19

158619

Those men who make these raids have work to do during

the day!

A.

Yea.

20

Q..

And work to do during the night ?

15620

A.

Yes.

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2/

Q.

The Chairman:-

A.

Would it hurt theother officers, - it would not taks

them so long during the night, the M. 0. H. night go if

it came to that, it would not take a quarter of a

hour, as against one man working two or three hours in

a night. Would that not be a proper system, when all

the houses are close together? It would do away with

that argument, and then it is not a thing which occurs

every night.

It occurs very frequently. We have 200,000 people here,

and there is a tremendous lot of overcrowding.

15.622

How many warrants do you say in the course of a month

for overcrowding, thirty ↑

22

A.

Ne, 1, 2, and 3 a wook. But that is not one house. That

is perhaps 20 or 30 houses, one warruht,

23 Q.

I mean speaking of sach individual house !

A

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Ar Tung Ta Chưa:

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That has been arranged of course with the other work.

Sometimve a man might visit easily from 50 to 100

à quses in a month. At other times, he might go a whole

month and not pay any visita.

rosp the law give the P. C. X. 0. power to sign one (5.614

warrant for ten houses ?

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:-

C.O. 537

361

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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