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Consolidation
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A statute passed
in the year 1778 raised the strength of the police in Calcutta
to 700 paiks, 31 thanadars and 34 naibs under a superintendent.
In 1780 commissioners of conservancy were appointed for the
town who also ooked after watch and ward. Policing was, still
very loosely organized.
In 1794 justices of peace were appointed for the municipal administration
of Calcutta and its suburbs, under a chief magistrate who was
directly in charge of the Police. In 1806 justices of peace
were constituted as magistrates of 24 Parganas and parts of
the adjacent districts within a 20-mile radius of the town.
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed a greater systematization
and institutionalization of policing in Calcutta. William Coats
Blacquiere, a charismatic city magistrate inaugurated a network
of spies or "goendas". In 1845 a committee under J.H.
Patton brought about key changes in police organization which
now began to be modeled on the London Metropolitan Police. A
Commissioner of Police was appointed with powers of a justice
of peace to preserve law and order, detect crime and apprehend
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