Desultory reflections on police : with an essay on the means of preventing crimes and amending criminals / by William Blizard.

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Desultory reflections on police : with an essay on the means of preventing crimes and amending criminals / by William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IN THE CITY OF LONDON. I would propofe, that one hundred and fifty men, able and of charadler, be kept conftantly in pay. That thirty good horfes be provided. That arms and accoutrements be prepared for thirty horfe- men and twenty foot. That they be properly officer- ed ; and, particularly, that the firft and fecond offi- cers be amply paid, and totally detached from other avocations. Fifty men to do duty every night, viz. thirty horfe and twenty foot. Guildhall to be the head-quarters. Their duties to be, to patrole the flreet§; to keep conftables and watchmen on t their duty ; to apprehend criminals ; affift at fires, and prevent or remove difturbances and enormities of every kind. They fhould every day report to the magiftrates the proceedings of the previous night. A record fhould be kept of thefe reports, and of thofe from the keepers of prifons; and, from them, general inflrudHons fhould be given, from time to time, to the SUPERINTENDANT-GENERAL of the CITY- I am GUARD.