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- Title
RURAL POLICE PATROL IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
- Authors
Chapman, Samuel G.
- Abstract
The article provides information on rural police patrol in England and Wales. Beat patrol in the more heavily populated urban areas is but one aspect of the patrol picture in England and Wales. The other is the method of patrol afforded the rural, or detached beats. Although many of the same types of problems are encountered on the detached beat, rural beat patrol presents a different prospective than found in urban procedure. The objects in view are similar, but the area and organization present basic differences. A rural beat is generally thought of in terms of wide expanses of countrysides, but this is often not the whole case. It probably would be more graphically illustrated as a collection of villages or scattered hamlets covered by one constable. A constable seeking duty in a rural beat area generally does so by application to his Chief Constable. Usually, possession of an automobile or motorcycle and willingness to use it on police business is a prime requisite. This auto requisite only pertains if the Chief Constable deems it necessary that a car be used. Where an officer uses; his own auto or pedal cycle for police duty, the Police Authority grant him some type of remuneration. Responsibility for police coverage to the detached beat is entirely that of the assigned constable. He is the only man assigned to that specific area and has jurisdiction for all 24 hours. He is available for call at any hour of day or night. However, regardless of the 24 hour responsibility, he must perform at least eight hours of duty unless otherwise instructed or excused by his superior officer.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; WALES; RURAL police; POLICE patrol; CONSTABLES; POLICE; CRIMINAL justice personnel
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology & Police Science, 1954, Vol 45, Issue 4, p499
- ISSN
0022-0205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1140044