Vagrancy
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X5402700215 |
| Published date | 01 April 1954 |
| Date | 01 April 1954 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
COLONIAL
POLICE
155
only slackness in investigation would have been the cause. Nothing
should he left to chance."
Colonial Police
Police,
Police,
Police,
of
Assistant Superintendent
Police, Nyasaland.
The following
appointments
arc
announced
by the Colonial Office:
Beaden, J. A., Inspector of Police, Assistant Superintendent
of
Uganda. Police, Uganda.
Coleman, W. E., Inspector
of
Assistant Superintendent
of
Police, Nyasaland. Police, Nyasaland.
Cooper, R. T., Assistant
Superin-
Superintendent
of
tendent of Police, Tanganyika.
Tanganyika.
Crusher, T. N., Inspector of Police, Assistant Superintendent
of
Uganda.
Police, Uganda.
Eden, R., Inspector
of
Police, Assistant Superintendent
of
Uganda. Police, Uganda.
Elkington, B., Assistant
Superin-
Superintendent
of
tendent
of
Police, Tanganyika. Tanganyika.
Fraser, J., Inspector
of
Police, Assistant Superintendent
of
Uganda. Police, Uganda.
Green, P., Inspector
of
Police, Assistant
Superintendent
of
Nyasaland. Police, Nyasaland.
Harvey, H. N. M., Assistant Superintendent
of
Superintendent
of
Police, Tanganyika.
Tanganyika.
Holmes,
.T.,
Inspector
of
Police,
Nyasaland.
Vagrancy
THE word
'vagrant'
is synonymous with the terms
tramp
or person
of
no fixed
abode,
avagabond, rascal, or good-for-nothing fellow.
Blackstone describes vagrants as being idle persons
and
vagabonds,
"such
as wake on the night
and
sleep on the day,
and
haunt
customable
taverns
and
routs
about,
and
no man wot from whence they come,
ne whither they
go."
From
the time
of
the upheaval caused by the Black
Death
in the
14th century, coupled with the gradual disruption
of
the feudal
system
and
the destruction
of
the monasteries in Henry VIII's reign,
until the end
of
the Napoleonic wars with the
consequent
discharge
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