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Old Bow Street rumers refused

to join

the Mectropolitan Police en its formation, and it was not until after the appointment of the late Sir farnes Graham to the Home Secretaryship, in 1841,

any

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that

attempt at the formation of regular Detective staff for the

London Police was

157.

from

one

tried.

The following paragraph of the Loviden Papers, The

Even

Standard" I believe of June 1861, wid show that

the modified system of Private Detectives met with the disapproval of the Secretary of State The Private Inquiry system

"The public is awarê

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that there has existed in the Metropolis for a considerable peried

the

an establishment Anown by

of the Private Inquiry Office,

name

formerly

under the direction of Mr Field,

Inspector of the Metropolitan Police. Mr. Field

Inspector

• for many years an of the L Division of Police,

but was

completing

superamuated upon

the usual period of

service, and a pension was granted to hime of £120 a year, and shortly afterwards he established the office in question . The arewed object of the institution is to make enquiries: for private parties upon my subject.