The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-02 00:00:00

DOROMISTER BOROUGH POLIPE.

We commend the following letter on " The Polite
ifystem" to all who are iota:aided in the ,incation of
Lb. maintenance of ths Dorchester Borough Polio* or
at the c mp'oj CCU nt of the County Constabulary:—
To tAs Zlitor of am rinse.

lita,-Circumstancrs bolus reo eddy attroted considerable
ottention to th• Police Force, polt•po you may or.eider stew
mutt, upon the system w tic.. plass In your columns.
i. 1.11 not rel. rto lb., mint, or dinnerita f the recent
proceedings in Lomita., nor shall I allote to th,:us no .11,
easept In posing. I pr :too dealing with the In a
wider mu.. It to pot generally known, I imagine, tit m there
are upwards of WO •Ilstluct police oKetricta in Great Britain.
They may be elasolft-d thuo :-Viestropolitan Pone., one I
London City PoliCe, on. !men& counths, ;
hnoughe. ; Beulah conoties, ; 5,, lob 10-roughs, U-
MW. OM. Toone only behind tho menu. nu Ova soy I lee
We effect of thin divided sudoority. I WWI be sohle to show
that, at might be rime:el. the public may. Koch fora has
Ito own rut., and regulatl 'no, Ito own reale of par, its ow%
motets ol beet, and of detectiv• work, loud in. great stony
botauces, • Mstinctive uniform Th. '' heed enroll° n
little ILectish Or Doronaktro borough, whom force o nsioted of,
perhaps, one individual end Mooed, is just no much as
autocrat In Me own little circle no tio ehiod constable of •
large county or borough with • forae mune h Indred• throng,
ead h•lf • midion peop:e k ten in order. I end there ans in
Great Britain no tower then ike forces the nominal dr.,, n of
each of which it under 10. One moult of the. has heel that one
Lore' has. In the recent oarchy of roctuits, bmn bidding
agalmt annther. The suthoritios, oay of • borough, hem
found • d faculty in burping up their force, owing to ile•
deemnd fr mgr. In other walka of hi. Th• ready has
frlly been to Increase the pap, with the avowed intont ion,
nay came capresoed, of attracting men from o her forces.
The advertisements On.. generally finish* I wilt some such
hue aa "candidates with po:iea onpccirc.o. pref.:rod." To
chtekmat• this move, neighbouring boroughs, and even
countoca, have had to do the same. It has been • not unusual
thing for • man with, say fire or gig years' met Ice, to resign
In one force in or.;er to get bettor wage. n recruit In a
netothbaurill force. That bee been one remit of the divided
&tabor-Ky.
. . . .

Anoite.e, is the inequality ef rank, and ths arbitrary way In
which It Is conferral. Any one who has had anything lode
with large bodies of me., in the Army or elsewhere, knows
how delical• • entri,ct this 1,. Yet.. have lb. ep.retade of •
duperintem,ont, or in/rotor of • borough, all gorgeous in Laos
and embroidery, rendeng poseibly little more than MU the
pay, and inferi, in preitron, edunGon, and e•ery other
repeat, to men h.lding Rune reek lee. adjoining twee.
The public only know that the reek is %berme. An iwpator
I. an inspector, whether in • large o only or • email bondieb.
Oemeepesaely Jealousy has exime, and co-operation. en can lod-
ine; emenUal le Me detection derbies, ban not been pm ibir.
I. every-day mem, to bring • robbery or offence under the
Loth:re of every force, so as to multiply the chances of detection.
It-would be nemaaary to forward nradare to nearly 300 placer.
ho • few of those plume Solna notice might be taken of them,
bull happen to know that the °poodle roe obtain, very
esteem rely. Forme are disbnct. What Com It matter to one
I if another lairs to hunt down a soled cliumter, or recover •
, jewel cue or It. contents / Nothing Mort a consolidation
could remedy tad, state of things, m well eon grass many
other disadvantage Irmo which the present metes* eadis.
Within. very Mort Mame' of where I am at lament writing
there le, in the heart '(a lugs courdy, with an *Wawa pollee,
• unell born ogh notorlowly hufficient In point r I numbers.
The Government insincior but so reported time alter bow. and
the cooly reply he can get from the mplent—orged I mmt add
eeldele —velars of that plane is that they have ea trine. Of
mune they have nom. Belt they have criminals, and poeohen,
and people of that clean who make egstentuic raids into Use
adkAning &orbit. It •11l be is.. that llook to the conovlida-
Um of all the forme fir en Improvement apon the preeent
state of things. If the police of the whole of Great Brimin
could not be amalgamated at cement, why MAW not the
Home Secretary maim the Act of IWO compulsory where it la
now only optional I One-fourth 04th. mat now paid by the
Treasury In efilqiwot force. le withheld altogether from
borough. with • population of Is., than 1,009. AMK Im-
peovvment up .n that woukl be to Motet upon mulgarnatioo In
at eases where the borough °outdo. MO than TO POO, or even
more. Inhabitant& Bat! would go further. The whole should
be consolidated. • low of the advantages would be a)
inewereed elllciency and (g) lest awl The inersomed efildency
would be brought about In several ways. There would be
pentad .o-operatiou ; there wou/.1 be fewer redgmbeen ard
changes. for IMMO, already4en.
or • man. iotelllgent man.
now wasted in some rend e basal be t, might found
emeedingly useful le • town, da a tow, eu greed to
dimmer with the services, in favour of a village, of • leo
sooreher. who might do good service in a rural
district. AU this would anon expense toe, and the system of
CpuirrerSesenlen
oos wnukt be uniform, and in that respect • groat
Then are 1111.0 y MINT reUrrla, pa/141E101r MOM or len of the
durum, of dated, which I might giveo bet which for the
present I shall leave to aver pee..
I have the honour to be, Ac,
• Cirr Cam Curnan.
Noretaber ti.