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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.
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