Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-08
Sits as Police Judge.

One of the commissaries sits every
morning as a police court In each arron-
basement and all offenders are brought
before him He has the power to impose
fines and sentence to Imprisonment. like
our notice Judges In some of the ar
rondissements a commissary holds court
| from y to 10 o'clock at night, so tnat per-
sons who are arrested in the afternoon
need not spend the night in prison unless
| they deserve to do so.
The commisary is a popular arbitrator.
| conciliator and general adviser Of peo-
pie in his district. Fathers consult him
| about unruly sons, wives concerning ais
| sipated husbands and neighbors appeal
| to him to settle their quarrels. There
| must be a commissary on duty at the
,bourse during business hours. There is
another at every military barracks: an
other at every public market to see that
the weights and measures are correct.
| that trading is honestly conducted and
| that the sanitary inspectors are doing
| their duty At every theater commits
sary must be present from the beg nning
| to the end of each performance. and the
service must be represented at every
public gathering, including church fairs,
| bazaars and that sort OF thing. The com
missaries wear no uniforms, but have offl-
| cial badges which are respected by the
| public and identify them to detectives
| and policemen who may be strangers to
| them.
! The commissary may summon a posse
| Of police at any time and detectives are
placed at his disposal whenever he
needs them. When serious crime Is
| committed, a mysterious murder or bur-
| glary, the patrolmen on duty notifies
| headquarters and headquarters notifies
the commfssary. Until the latter appears
| everything must be left und. sturbed. and
/ he determines what action is necessary.
He takes charge of the premises and
summons the coroner.
| One of the most important duties OF the
Paris police is to keep census of the
| card at headquarters bearing the name
| of every man, woman and child in the
| city.
Landlords Must Report.
| All landlords Of hotels, apartment
| houses, lodging houses and other places
where people live temporarily must re-
port each arrival and departure, and the
concierge of each apartment house is
required to report any unusual occur
renee within the building. AS nearly
90 per cent Of the population Of Paris live
| in apartment houses this surveillance is
| thorough and complete.
| All persons who are arrested for OF
| are involved in crime leave their thumb
marks and their photographs at police
| headquarters. and the archives of that
| great institution CONTAIN the biographies
| of hundreds of thousands of men. The
! records, of course, are strictly confiden-
| tial and supposed to be at the disposition
only of the project. the comnissaries and
the officers of justice, but have often been
| used for political purposes.
| One of the most notable records ever
made at the headquarters of the Paris
police was published IN the newspapers
| at the time of the commune. 1t was a
| report of the investigation into the ante
| cedentS the character and habits of the
Countess of Montijo Of Spain. made at
| the request of Emperor Napoleon III be-
fore his marriage to her daughter
| Eugene.