Police Report of the Bombay Presidency Including Sind and Railways for the Year 1923

The Commissioner in Sind does not accept the reason given by the Superitendent as wholly satisfactory and remarks as under :— " The causes suggested by the Superintendent do not appear to account satisfactorily for this development except on the assumption that in the case of this particular district the reduction of the Police force operated much more strongly in the direction of increasing [...] " The fall under the above three heads of crime is mainly due to the non-registration owing to the reduction in the number of Police Stations and Outposts and the inevitable disinclifiation of complainants to undertake long journey to the necessary Police Stations for reporting the offences." I agree that the Sind Police Force has been over-retrenched and that the retrenchments carried out there [...] 6. A statement showing the incidence per thousand of the population of cognizable crime reported under the Indian Incidence of cognizable Penal Code and of the principal classes of serious and serious crime per crime for 1923 district by district is attached at thousand of the Popultion the end of the report. [...] The decrease is distributed all over the Presidency and is most marked in the Central Division (543 cases) followed by the Railways with 527 cases Sind with 337 cases the Northern Division with 298 cases the Southern Division with 121 cases and the BOmbay Suburban District with 79 cases.16 The following tabular statement shows the percentages of undetected cases to real cases disposed of :—. [...] But this is a policy of perfection which the existing attenuated cadres of the police force do not render feasible." The Commissioner Central Division adds :- - " I hope that the proposals of the Inspector-General for the re-organization of the Criminal Investigation Department and the institution of a Detective School will receive the early consideration pf Government." The most pressing need