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visions, within easy reach of the most crowded thoroughfares when needed. All the men in this branch of the service have been thoroughly trained in horsemanship, and those who have seen them at work on their adroit horses, keeping back a mass of pushing, struggling people, or dexterously dispersing a threatening crowd, know their worth as maintainers of order. Both the Executive and Statistical Departments are concerned with reports which are the basis of all discipline and organisation in the Metropolitan Police. The first--"The Morning Report"--is compiled by the superintendents of divisions, and passed and commented upon by the Chief Constables in charge of districts. This is London's bill of criminal health. It shows what has happened beyond the ordinary over seven hundred square miles in the preceding twenty-four hours. A murder, a riot, a robbery, a fire, a street collision--all things are recorded. Every police station, it should be said, keeps an "Occurrence Book" and it is from this that the reports are compiled. Then there is the "Morning Report of Crime." This is largely the work of the divisional detective-inspectors. Every crime for which a person can be indicted is included here, and an elaborate report of the steps that have been taken. Comments are made upon this by both the Chief Constable of the district and the Assistant-Commissioner of the C.I.D.--commendations, reprimands, suggestions. The third report is the "Morning State," which deals with matters of internal administration of the force itself--numbers available, disciplinary matters, affairs of health. All these reports ultimately reach the departments for record and for the transmission of orders. CHAPTER XII. THE SAILOR POLICE. Fantastic reflections dappled the Pool of London--reflections from the riding lights of ships at anchor, and the brighter glare of the lamps of the bridges. They danced eerily on the swift-running waters of the river, intensifying the gloom of the black waters. Here and there the darker blur marked where a line of barges was moored. The police-boat, its motor chug-chugging noisily, slipped unostentatiously behind one of the tiers of lighters. To my untrained eyes it was incredible that in the labyrinth of craft, amid the darkness, we should be able to pick our way. Yet deftly, unerringly, the inspector moved the tiller, while two constables kept keen eyes on the motley assembly of vessels
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