CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 274

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- such perfection

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be arrived at

I think it would be better for

the Government to have a regular

Detective system to rely on,

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to go o

153.

bez

than

with the present arrangemerk.

The establishment of imegular Detective service

means

A

novel of yet:

extraordinary course to pursue,

somewhat similare arrangements

is

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England at least

have existed in for the past 40 years.

154.

wverl

wvere

Arregular Dokatives

brought into existence and

the result of defective Police arrangements, and although they

gradually superseded in their

were

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Police functions by the regular Falece, yet the encouragement they met

with

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private detectives the most lucrative branch of the business

prevented the entire breaking rep of the system.

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Previous to the Establishment

of the Mestropolitan Police in 1827,

London relied on two distinct bodies

of

men

for performing its Police duties; 1st, the Watchmen or "Old

Charles' as they

called as

were were/

familiarly

preventives, and 2nd another

class called runners attached to Bow Street and the Mansion House,

employed

as detectives.

136.

The Majority of the

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