[247] See also a letter of Mr Justice Wills on the same subject, in The Times, 21st Feb. 1901.
[248] The electric telegraph was first adapted to police purposes in 1841.
[249] See Kirchner's "Law and practice relative to Fugitive Offenders."
[250] 42 & 43 Vict. c. 22.
[251] 47 & 48 Vict. cap. 58.
[252] These Regulations were revised by Sir Richard Webster (Lord Alverstone), Lord Herschell, and the Right Hon. Hugh Childers in 1886, and may be found on page 250 of Bicknell's Police Manual.
[253] Now Colonel Sir Howard Vincent, M.P., the compiler of "The Police Code," and a well-known authority on police questions.
[254] In 1884 the office of Director of Criminal Investigation was abolished, and the duties formerly appertaining to the office have since then been performed by an additional Assistant-Commissioner, appointed for the purpose; but the system remains practically the same as when it was first introduced in 1878.
[255] See The Times, 6th Feb. 1888.
[256] 2 & 3 Vict. c. 47, s. 22.