In 1892 the Manchester Watch Committee commissioned a report following the third extension of the city’s boundaries in 1890. The report, edited and summarised, stated:
In Manchester the gross cost on the rates was now 8.2d in the £1 out of an assessment of £2.8m from a population of 500,000. There were 19 stations and 837 constables on street duty (force establishment of 1031), on day-time beats ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours with an average beat size of 12 acres. Night-time beats, some were over 3 hours. By contrast Birmingham had only 13 stations, a 670 strong establishment with 50 per cent larger beat sizes. This in a slightly smaller city acreage but significantly with 59 per cent less miles of streets.
Liverpool police data is far less documented as possibly the WC considered they performed a different policing role, one summarised later by Detective Superintendent Caminada in 1899, as ‘Liverpool, ..has an altogether exceptional task on hand in dealing with a floating and irresponsible population as well as her own’.[1]
[See Police Personnel / Jerome Caminada]
Following the 1890 amalgamation there was continued review of the size of the Manchester police establishment leading the rationalisation reports following Chief Constable Peacock’s appointment in 1898.
[See Strategies and Police Estate / Rationalisation 1898]
[1] Caminada, Twenty Five years, p.507.
In Manchester the gross cost on the rates was now 8.2d in the £1 out of an assessment of £2.8m from a population of 500,000. There were 19 stations and 837 constables on street duty (force establishment of 1031), on day-time beats ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours with an average beat size of 12 acres. Night-time beats, some were over 3 hours. By contrast Birmingham had only 13 stations, a 670 strong establishment with 50 per cent larger beat sizes. This in a slightly smaller city acreage but significantly with 59 per cent less miles of streets.
Liverpool police data is far less documented as possibly the WC considered they performed a different policing role, one summarised later by Detective Superintendent Caminada in 1899, as ‘Liverpool, ..has an altogether exceptional task on hand in dealing with a floating and irresponsible population as well as her own’.[1]
[See Police Personnel / Jerome Caminada]
Following the 1890 amalgamation there was continued review of the size of the Manchester police establishment leading the rationalisation reports following Chief Constable Peacock’s appointment in 1898.
[See Strategies and Police Estate / Rationalisation 1898]
[1] Caminada, Twenty Five years, p.507.
