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38.

In Manchester with a

Force of 671, rand and file there are but 57 Offions bring more than fifty per cent lef than Hougtong; and yet, I can very confidently apert that the

the

surveillance exercised over

Constables in Manchester is much

more

effective than that in

Hong Kong

and that for Constable sleeping

on

ane

duty in the former place,

we

have at least half a dizen in Hongthing. In the City of London Police the ratio of Officers to men

is even

lef than this, and there the

supervision is

39.

nearly perfect.

This is a question desering

the most careful consideration affecting

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as it must necessarily do, the acconse

of protection afforded, for if in a given radius- good organization and management would admit for six constables being pested, and yet under defective arrangements only three were allotted, the chances in favor of Robbers plying

their

vocation with succes would be increased fifty per

cent. Such calculations are inva

invariably

made by Professional, thieves of whatever nationality they may be : 40. One of the methods adopted in England of testing the relative preventive strength of a Police is bey comparing the Beats covered during the

2st hours with the number of Constables.