There is an interesting side to police work in Shanghai of which few people perhaps have any idea. The streets are patrolled by officers on the look out for obvious breaches of law and order, and detectives, as we know, spend laborious days in the haunts of the criminal d but for the most part but little of the work done comes to the notice of the public, unless a case in hand is of general interest by reason of some exceptional fact or picturesque feature. We propose in the present article to give some details of the Municipal Police system as conducted from the central office of the Criminal Investigation Department.
How Details are Systematized.
By the system that is being built up day by day under the direction of the chief of the department, Mr G. Kirk, 'a vast quantity of de-Qited information fo being organized for ready reference—brief and pithy biographies of criminals, their peculiar methods of crime, their favourite haunts, their best friends and choice acquaintances, criminal and respectable, and much more with regard to men and matters among the lawless which serves to facilitate the investigation of new eases.
With such information at command, the position of the habitual offender is made more and more precarious and it becomes less and Jess possible for such a man to escape the earnest interest of the police in his career,
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