Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code

[ffutures]

I've put my first draft of Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code on my site. For those who didn't see my previous posts, it's basically the 15th (1912) edition of a compact guide on how to be a London policeman, and the basis of the codes used by all of the UK's police forces, and many Commonwealth forces. It should be useful to anyone writing about the UK police in this period:

http://www.forgottenfutures.co.uk/policecode/code0.htm

I'm still working my way through the index - for some reason a lot of the page numbers were missing or jumbled, so I ended up deleting them and am working my way through the entries, adding the links manually by reference to the book - I've done A and B, I'll upload again when I have a few more letters done.

I'm sure that there are still lots of OCR and formatting errors etc., if you spot anything that looks wrong please let me know. Please don't post links to it on other sites for now, I'd prefer to fix any problems first.

later - index now A to D. And so to bed, I think...

Later still - so much for bed... now tested under Opera, Safari, and Firefox on (respectively) my PC running XP, my iBook running OSX Tiger, and my netbook running Mint Linux. And it all works, despite large variations in screen resolution etc., including the bits that had to use tables etc. Pleased (and a little surprised), and now REALLY heading for bed!

Next day - also OK under Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome under (spit) Vista.

Comments

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

This is simply terrific.

It's also interesting to see how much has changed and yet hasn't changed: FREX, this snip from the section on musical copyright (!):

" Musical Copyright.-1. "Pirated copies" of any musical work means such as are written, printed, or otherwise reproduced without the consent lawfully given by the owner of the copyright in such musical work.
2. Pirated copy of any musical work being hawked or sold in the street may be seized by a constable without warrant, on the request in writing of the apparent owner of the copyright, or of his agent, and at the risk of such owner. (Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copyright Act, 1902.)
3. The owner may also give a general written authority to a Chief Officer of Police, requesting the arrest, at such owner's risk, of persons offering for sale in any street or public place any pirated copies. Any constable may then arrest such persons without warrant. Police before acting must be quite sure of their facts, and take care not to arrest any offender about whose action there is the slightest doubt. In such case it will be much better to take the name and address of the vendor with a view to summons.
4. Every person who prints, reproduces, or sells, or exposes, offers, or has in his possession for sale any pirated copies of any musical work, or has in his possession any plates for the purpose of printing or reproducing pirated copies, is punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.
5. If a Court of Summary Jurisdiction is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence is being committed on any premises, it may grant a search warrant for execution between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. (Musical Copyright Act, 1906.)"

::B::

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed that one too, does ring all sorts of bells.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

I would like to state, for the record, that I originally read the title of this post as "Sir Howard Vincent Price's Code".