Reference
PUAV47
Title
CONSTABULARY FORCE COMMISSIONERS RETURNS.
Date free text
1836
Scope and Content
These printed forms were sent by the Home Department to the Poor Law Unions in November 1836 and contain a list of 34 questions on law and order to be answered by the Guardian of each parish. The completed returns were supposed to be sent to the Commissioners at the Home Office. The Ampthill Union forms were not returned. The form requested details re. number of felonies in the last 12 months, number of offenders apprehended, efficiency of parish constables, local inducements for crime, lodging houses for tramps, beer shops, riots and fires since 1829, need for nightly patrols, availability of special constables, distance to nearest magistrate, expense and trouble incurred during procedure before trials, voluntary associations for prosecution of offenders or suppression of vagrancy, local Acts giving peculiar police powers, additional means for security of persons and property in the parish, any other information or suggestions.
Level of description
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