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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf

Post Number: 2943
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 1:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
I couldn’t find the right thread for this, although I have recently seen mention of it, so I started a new one.

Metropolitan Police Beats:
‘Beats are worked at the regulation rate of two and a half miles per hour. By day the constable walks the kerb side of the pavement, by night the inner side.’

London City Police Beats:
‘The beats are much shorter, averaging ten minutes.’

(Clarkson & Richardson 1889, London.)
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert

Post Number: 5372
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 2:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)
AP, there's some stuff on police beats at http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/catechism.htm

The PCs used to mark doors, walls and ladders to see if anyone had been there.

Robert

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