Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
How can we compare this to today?
Information taken from Crime report for Dover borough - year Sept 1891 to Sept 1892:
One head constable, 6 sergeants, 31 constables, total force being 38.
Salaries and pay amounted to £2876. 7s. 1d., clothing etc. £249. 18s. 8d., station house charges £120. 9s. 2d., miscellaneous charges £172. 2s.5d.
Total cost: £3,418.17s. 4d. Superannuations and grants paid out of the superannuation fund £467. 16s. 6d.
Persons arrested and prosecuted:
2 known thieves; 4 suspicious characters; 11 who had borne a previous good character; 4 whose characters were unknown, making a total of 21 - all Males but one.
The classes of persons proceeded against summarily were
13 known thieves, 17 prostitutes, 34 vagrants, 27 suspicious or bad characters, 23 habitual drunkards, 149 persons of previous good character, 132 whose characters were unknown,
making total of 395, (333 males and 62 females).
BLACK SHEEP of the flock: in the borough:
3 known thieves and depradators under age of 16, 4 above age of 16; one receiver of stolen goods, 5 suspected persons under age of 16 and 5 over age of 16,
making total of 18 depradators and suspected persons at large of whom the police have cognizance. Eight houses of bad character.
OFFENCES & APPREHENSIONS: Total number of indictable offences committed in the borough was 30, viz:
one assault; one burglary; 2 shop robberies, 19 larcenies, 2 obtaining goods by false pretences, 1 arson, 2 malicious injury to property; 2 forgery.
For these reported offences 21 persons were apprehended, and 13 committed for trial.
PETTY OFFENDERS: The following were the offences dealt summarily by the Magistrates:
5 assaults on the police;
57 common assaults;
2 aggrevated assaults;
one refusal to maintain a bastard;
4 breaches of the peace;
9 cases of cruelty to animals;
28 breaches of the Elementary Education Acts;
1 embezzlement;
1 offence under the Employers' and Workmens' Act;
5 breaches of the Fishers' Act;
59 drunkenness;
2 illegally selling intoxicating liquors;
6 other offences under Licensing Act of 1872;
one offence under Contagious Diseases Animals Act;
31 breaches of local acts and bye-laws;
13 trespass cases;
29 offences under Army Act;
38 under Navy Act;
7 offences under the Police Acts;
9 desertions of families;
2 smuggling cases;
5 excise cases;
43 simple larceny;
34 begging.
Kath
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
Whatever`s said about Dover today, be it vandalism, speeding bikes, drunkeness or anything else, if that lot of Dovorian`s from above arrived here today in a time machine, this town would surely look to them like Shangrila!
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
loved that one "refusal to maintain a b*****d," nowadays the benefit agency take that role on.
very efficiently too.
Not one case of illegal immigration. How times have changed.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
As I said before I was in the town jail under the town hall for fighting in 1960 or 1961 my name is still on the wall.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
As I said before I was in the town jail under the town hall for fighting in 1960 or 1961 my name is still on the wall.
