'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [‎214v] (12/150)

Police
Vagrants.
Wild animals
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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
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of default in payment of revenue demands and to remove doubts as to the
applicability of Bombay Act No. V of 1862 to reconst.tuted The ma | n
oELt of the second act was to establish the rule of, success,on by li neaI .
p imogeniture for the purpose of registrat.on under the Watan Act and the
Matadkrs Act. Some minor amendments were also effected m the Watan Act.
The third act provided for the appointment of a Deputy Chairman to the Bombay
Port Trust.
Three Government bills and one private bill were also introduced into the
t e£rislat i ve Council. Of the three Government measures the first was designed
to amend the law relating to Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and the other
two provided amendments to the City of Bombay Municipal Act and the Aden
Port Trust Act. The private bill was introduced by the Honourable Mr. Ibrahim
Rahimtoola, C.I.E., and dealt with the registration of chanties.
1 o The introduction of further measures of re-organization in the police force
in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper led to an increase in cost of Rs. 1,12,000, the expenditure
on the entire force of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. amounting to Rs. 63 Mkhs. The statistics
reveal an improvement in almost every branch of police activity. The educational
standard of the force has risen slightly and there is a noticeable advance in the
shootino- efficiency of the armed detachments. Though there was an increase
in the total volume of reported crime the number of true cognizable cases
dealt with has declined everywhere except in Sind, the most noticeable
falling off having occurred in the Central Division and on the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
railways. Of the more important forms of crime the police have been most
successful in dealing with dacoities, burglaries and thefts, while the returns
dealing with murders and cognate offences and robberies are least satisfactory.
The proportion of undetected cases to true crime has fallen from 45 to 42 per cent.
The improvement is general, but Sind with a percentage of 54 is still far behind
the rest of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. . The proportion of property recovered to the total
amount stolen has risen from 3°'^ to 35 ^ P ei " cent. It is not easy in the absence
of definite delta to estimate the work of the village police, but an increase m the
number of rewards granted for good service appears to indicate some advance
ment. In the administration of the Bombay City Police an important change
was effected by the opening of three experimental police stations on a system
designed to facilitate the prompt initiation and proper supervision of all inquiries.
The institution of a daily Police Gazette, in place of the old system of circulating
crime reports, is another improvement carried out during the year. There was
a marked increase in serious crime in Bombay city and a slight fall in the
proportion of convictions secured by the police to the total number of true cases.
On the other hand, though the reported value of stolen property was more than
double that of the previous year, the percentage of recoveries rose from 387 to 53.
The finger-print bureau attached to the Criminal Investigation Department
succeeded in tracing previous convictions against no less than 30 per cent, of the
prisoners whose finger-prints were forwarded for identification. The fact is
significant and indicates at once the existence of a considerable resident criminal
population and the necessity of inflicting deterrent sentences in the case 0
old offenders.
11. Two hundred vagrants were admitted to the Government work-houses
during the year. Of the whole number nearly one-fourth were deported or sentence
to imprisonment and nearly one-half were provided with work or were handed over
to various homes or to the care of friends and relations. The total cost
Government on account of the Vagrancy Act was Rs. 9,410.
12. The number of persons killed by wild animals during the year fell
from 36 to 22. There was a decrease amounting to 7 per cent, in the num