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A treatise on the functions and duties of a Constable [Recurso eletrónico] : containing details and observations interesting to the public / Patrick Colquhoun.- London : s.n., 1803 (London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Company).- 1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
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INSTITUIÇÃO POLICIAL, POLÍCIA CRIMINAL, PESSOAL DE POLÍCIA, INGLATERRA
Preface. Advertisment. Preliminary observations. High Constable. Part I. Explaining of the duty of Constables as it relates to offences leading to the corruption of morals. Part II. Explaining of the duty of Constables relating to offences constituting vagrancy, producing ideleness and crimes. Part III. Explaining duty of Constables as it relates to assaults, affrays and breaches of the peace. Part IV. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to the pervention of crimes, and the detection, apprehension, prosecution, and conviction of criminal offenders, with a detail of the rewards granted, in certain cases of conviction; and also with respect to the punishments. Part V. Explaining tge duty of Constables as it relates to Courts of Justice, and to juries - and to the coroner. Part VI. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to the security of the public agentes danger, calamity, and injury to the property or the person of individuals. Part VII. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to frauds committed on the public by the sale of unwholesome provisions, or bread, meat, provisions in general, or any other article adulterated or deficiente in weight or mesure. Part VIII. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to the protection and security of the public revenue. Part IX. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to the recovey of small tithes. Part X. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to His Majesty’s Forces. Part XI. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to treasonable and seditious conspiracies against the sovereign, the government and constitution of the country, and the security of the subject. Part XII. Explaining the duty of Constables as it relates to making distress for rents, taxes, parish rates; and penalties incurred in consequence of the convictions of magistrates, and other chief officers. Part XIII. Explaining the duty of Constables with respect to warrants and summons in general; prosecutions for abuse of power, and escapes. Part XIV. Explaining the duty of Constables who are appointed in rotation to attend the diferente watch-houses in the Metropolis, and in other large cities where watchmen and patrols are established. Part XV. Respecting the expenses incurring by Constables in the execution of their offices. Part XVI. Respecting the advantages which may arise to Constables, and other offices of justice, as a reward and compensation for their time employed , and their zeal and activity in putting the laws in force against offenders under various penal statutes. Appendices.