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London, England, 1829-09-24 00:00:00

PRICE SEVENPEN rr .

Police Local Divisions, one Company being allotted to each
Division.

2. Each Company is formed as follows :
I ....Suparintendant, I 16....Serjeanta.
4 ....Inspectors, I 144.... Police Constables.
3. The Company is divided into sixteen Parties, each eunsicir g
of we Sergeant and nice Men.
Four Sergeants parties, or one-fourtb part of the Cony,: y,
form an Inspector's party.
4. The whole Company is under the command of the Supei
n.-
tendant.
6. Each Man is conspicuously marked with the letter of Isi:
vision, and a number corresponding with lus name In the book,,
so that he cao at all time be known to the public.
6. The first 16 numbers in each Division denote the Sergeants.
7. A smaller Pollee Company is attached to the Office of die
Commissioners, for the duty in the immediate neighbourhood, and
is also applicable to general purposes.
CONDITIONS.

The conditions upon which each nun is to be admitted into the
Police Force are stated here, that no complaint may be made here-
after upon their being enforced. The Commissioners of Police
desire it to be understood, at the same time, that they reserve their
power to alter or annul any of these; and also to make such new
rules as ntay be round expedient.
1. He shall devote his whole time to the Police Service.
2. He shall serve and reside wherever he is appointed.
3. He shall promptly obey all lawful orders which he may re-
ceive fruni the persons placed in authority over him.
4. He shall conform himself to all the regulations which m.:y
be made, from time to time, for the good of the service.
5. He shall not, upon any occasion, or under any pretence whet.
soever, take money from any person without the express permission
of the Commissioners.
6. He shall get such articles of clothes, as the Commissioner,
shall direct, front the respective contractors, and pay for them,
ready money, or, by deductions made front his weekly pay, under
the directions of the Commissioners.
7. He shall furnish himself with new clothes whenever th.
Commissioners may direct.
4. He shall, at all times, appear in his complete police-dress.
9. He shall allow a deduction of one shilling a week to be made
from his pay, if unmarried, when lodgings are found for him.
10. If married, when lodgings are found, an agreement will be
made in each particular case.
11. He shall pay all such debts contracted by him, as the Com-
missioners shall direct.
12. He shall receive his pay weekly, on such day as shall be
appointed.
13. His pay as Common Constable is three shillings per day,
subject to the deductions above mentioned, for clothes and lodgings.
14. He shall be supplied with an account book, which lie is to
have to produce at all times, when required.
15. He shall not quit the Police Force, without giving a month's
previous notice; in case he quit without such notice, all pay then
due shall be forfeited.
16. He shall not use, nor allow to be used, the baton, marked
" Police Force," except while he belongs to the Polictellergice,
Each Police Constable is liable to dismissal, a such other
punishment as may by law be inflicted for the breack of any of the
foregoing Rules. Also, the Commissioners will, if they shall think
fit, dismiss him, without assigning any reason.
OUTLINE OF GENER&,DUIM.
1. The duty will commence each evening at an hour regulated
by the setting of the San ; when any change becomes necessary.
it will be specified in orders.
2. One part of the force, for duty from the commencement of
the evening till midnight, may be called the first night relief; and
from midnight till morning, the second night relief; in like man-
ner may he a first and second day relief.
3. One half of the entire force will be on duty at night, consist-
ing of two inspectors and eight serjeants, with their respective par-
ties, at one time ; and these will be relieved by the other half, at
the boors, and in the manner hereinafter specified.
4. Each Serjeant's party, when on duty, will have charge of its
respective section of the Division, each police constable having a
beat appropriated to him, within the section.
5. In case any Constable should be absent from sickness or any
other cause, his place will be supplied from the reserve of his
section.
6. There will be nine men belonging to each serjeant's party.
and only eight beats in a section, thus one man of each section will
remain at the division station, forming a reserve of eight men for
the whole division, to supply occasional absences, and to be ready
for such duties as may be required there.
7. If from sickness of the men, or any other cause, the reserve
men at the division station be required for duty, their place must
be supplied by the men of the relief going off duty ; when this
becomes necessary, the reserve party, formed of the men going off
duty, will be permitted to take their rest at the station, as far as
circuntstances will permit.
ts. The men of each section will in turn be left as the reserve at
the station.
9. The Superintendent, or Senior Inspector, must name the in-
dividuals who are to remain at the Division Station from the off-
going relief, whets that is required.
10. The men who are off duty are to consider themselves liable
to be called upon at all times, and will always prepare themselves,
when required, at the shortest notice.
1. with a view to such sudden emergenies, that the men may
be fully efficient, they will be lodged in, or as nearly as possible to,
their respective sections.
12. A certain number, when so ordered by their officers, must
sleep in their clothes, to be In perfect readiness when called on.
13. The Serjeant must live in the house with the men of his
section, or close to it, as permission is given him ; be will always
go en duty with his party, and have the general charge and super-
intendence of it at all times.
14. The men of the relief for duty will individually assemble at
the Division Station, before or precisely at the hour fixed for that
purpose in the orders, and will turns in order in their respective
parties. Their names will be called, and an inspection made by
their respective serjeants, to ascertain that they are all perfectly
sober and correctly dressed and appointed ; each nun will lit fur-
nished with a card, with his name, and the number of the beat he
is to take charge of, written upon it.
The name of the man, opposite to the heat be is to take charge.
will be entered in a book ; the serjeant will then read and explain,
if necessary, the orders of the day, if there be any; and having
done so, he will make his report to the Inspector, who will give t..
each serjeant in writing the limas he is to make his patrols round
his section, also the time of reporting to hint at a central point, and
will order them to march the men off to their respective stations.
Of the two Inspectors who will be on duty together, one will
take the general charge of the duty throughout the Divisionorisitine
the rues, and seeing as much of it as possible; receiving the reports
of the several Sergeants as before mentioned, so as lrequeittly to
hear front them the state of all part. of the Division. The other
Inspector will remain in the Division Station, to receive charges,
complaints, and ell applications for assistance. &c. They will either
relieve each other, exchanging the duty for half the entice period
of continuing on duty, or arrange it as may he mutually agreed on.
In case of any riot or disturbance in the streets, which might be
likely to call too many of the constables from their respective brats,
the inspector will send to the division station for the reserve
party, or. if requisite, to the nearest residence of the party off duty
in the section ; hut this should be done only its cases of neces-
sity.
At the hour of relieving the men, no one shall leave his heat
until the relief has actually arrived on the heat ; the constable re-
lieved will then go to a particular spot appointed in each Section
for that purpose. When alt the party relieved of the &oleo are
assembled, they are to be inspected by the Sergeant as when ;piing
on duty, :hat he may ascertain whether they are era, ctly sobrr
and correctly dressed. as wh, n lie po-red them. The S,reeant
will then dismiss the party and proceed to nuke his final r-pert to
the lnsp,ctor at the appointed place.
Tim Inspectors will deliver a written Report accordir It to the
printed form et o'clock, to the Superintetidant of their Division.
The Superittreodant will send in at o'clock each neon, tag to
the office a Report and Return, according to prescribed fern s' de-
tailing the occurrences of the night within his dividon ; ~tad he
win also send all promo given in charge or apprehended lit the
night, under the care of to suck of the Police
Magistrates' offices as may be fixed on for the Division. The :,fficti:
who takes charge of the constables to the office will at:end to theft
several cases. and make a Report, its writing, of the reetik o4'
each to the Superietendate, who witl send a Report of the same
to the effice on that day, i: lie shall deem it requisite, or the lot-
lowing it-wiling, with the other iteports.
(To be continued )