Our police are wonderful, our visitors assure us. Also they are plentiful. "Including the City police, 18 completely autonomous and separate force from the Metropolitan police, there are well over 20,000 policemen in London. More than 19, 000 of these are members of the Metropolitan force, ruled from the Home Office and Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan force costs the taxpay= fers over £9,000,000 a year. The Gity force contents itself with £500,- 600, This last sum Is very little less than the cost of the Manchester or Birmingham police.
The extraordinary state of affairs which tolerates a tiny separate entity, the City of London, in the very heart of the Metropolis is hard to understand. The City police force rules the square mile under the direct and nal authority of the City Fathers. And in turn over the City. Fathers sits the Lord Mayor of London, most picturesque civie figure in the world. His duties and jurisdiction are confined to the little kernel of the City, but his fame spreads to the outer margin of civilization.
In the last recorded year five cases of murder were tried with other indictable offences before the Assizes and Quarter Sessions in the London area. Of these one escaped death with the verdict "Guilty but insane." The other four, in the words of the record, were "otherwise disposed of Before the same courts 32 were convicted of bigamy. tone of rape, three of indecency. three of arson, 39 of forgery and offences against the currency, one of libel and 42 of being "incorrigible rogues."
There are 113,361 registered aliens the Metropolitan " Police area. Easily the largest colony is the Russian. There are 33,000 of them. Others are: Germans 14,000, Italians 10,000, Austrians 8,000, French 7,000, Americans 5,000, Poles 5,000 and
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