shadow of britain

Chapter 86 Diplomatic Cases
Greenwich Police District No.30 four times police this year, Superintendent Arthur Hastings attended with four sheriffs and undercover police officers.

Arthur glanced at the materials at hand, and said.

"Then the meeting is now. According to the orders issued by the Ministry of the Interior and Scotland Yard, we will continue to arrange police undercover parades and rallies this week. You must have received the salary increase notice. Starting from this week, the salaries of all police officers will be increased by 20.00% five .

The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Home Affairs are very satisfied with the results of our work. Since the police district has solved the extraordinary disappearance in St. Giles parish, there may be a special bonus in the future. "

Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help showing a smile.

And Arthur also turned the conversation to Sergeant Jones: "Jones, you did a good job this time. Not long after you took up your new post, you took down several corpse gangs in one fell swoop, just in terms of ability and task completion , you are without a doubt the best in the precinct.

To be honest, your work ability is much better than that of my old boss Willox.In this year's work report, I will consider raising your rating as appropriate.When you have accumulated enough seniority as a sheriff, my recommendation letter for promotion will be sent to you immediately. "

When Jones heard this, his heart trembled first, and then he hurriedly stood up and saluted: "I'm learning from you, sir!"

The Red Devil leaned against the window, narrowed his eyes and said, "Arthur, there's something wrong with this kid. Isn't it clearly shown in your disappearance investigation report? Basically all the gangs of corpse-snatchers that this kid found are the same as those who have disappeared. It has something to do with people and missing persons who are dead but not dead.”

Of course Arthur knew there was something wrong with Jones, and he had been going back to Scotland Yard's recent internal cases these days.

It started with the missing gun case in Willox, then to the loss of stolen goods in the police district, and then the disappearance case of St. Giles Parish.

Coincidentally, Jones is basically related to these cases. First of all, he came to the Greenwich Police District to pick up the position of Sheriff Willox.

Secondly, when Arthur looked up Jones' background and promotion documents, he discovered that this kid was actually recommended by Superintendent Clemens, who was in charge of St. Giles Parish.

With such a highly overlapping professional resume, it is impossible to doubt him.

If you follow this logical reasoning, it means that everyone in the Clemens faction in Scotland Yard has problems.

Although Scotland Yard has only been established for a year, the interior is also full of hills.

The middle-level cadres in Scotland Yard are basically all middle- and low-level officers who have retired from the Army.

But although they also came from the army, they also divided themselves into several factions due to the different types of arms and serving corps.

Those who used to serve in the cavalry regiment were huddled together, and those who served in the infantry were huddled in another group. Of course, there were also noble regiments of guards, and grenadiers who looked down on anyone with their noses up.

When Arthur held mid-level policing meetings at Scotland Yard every Monday, he could often hear inspectors joke about the nickname of the opposing regiment.

For example, several inspectors from the 15th Infantry Regiment were often ridiculed as 'empty guns'.

They were so called because three battalions of the 15th Infantry ran out of bullets at the Battle of Brandywine Creek that year in the American Revolutionary War, so they distributed the remaining bullets among their best gunners.In order to avoid embarrassment, the rest simply loaded gunpowder instead of bullets and emptied their guns to strengthen the morale of everyone.

And as holding the two noble modifiers of 'Grenade' and 'Guards' at the same time, and defeated the elite French Grenadiers in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, they were given the royal prefix and renamed the Royal Grenadier Guards The 1st Guards Rifle Regiment did not escape the taunt either.

The inspectors never mentioned the royal family of the regiment, nor did they mention the grenade and the guards. They just called the inspectors of the 1st Guards infantry regiment 'coal diggers'.

The reason is also very simple, because the commander of the regiment once rented out soldiers to pull coal to raise money for the renovation of the officers' mess hall in St. James's Palace.

Of course, it wasn't always the infantry who were ridiculed, and the police inspector who retired from the cavalry could not escape the fate of being ridiculed by the crowd.

For example, the 11th Light Dragoon Regiment, they were called "Cherry Stealers" because the regiment couldn't help being greedy and was attacked by the French army while stealing cherries in the orchard, so they had to participate in the battle on foot.

There was also the 14th Light Dragoons, nicknamed the 'Emperor's Maids' because of their victories at the Battle of Victoria and the capture of the chamber pot of Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte.

and the 17th Light Dragoons, known as the 'Navy Horse Troopers' because of the regiment's stint in the Royal Navy.

The hill where Superintendent Clemens is located is the Guards Cavalry Regiment nicknamed "Piccadilly Butcher".

Considering that Willox was also born in cavalry, it seems that it is not difficult to understand that he has some connection with Clemens.

Arthur glanced at Agares who was leaning against the window. He seemed to understand why the Red Devil didn't let him investigate the case.

If it has something to do with the Guards Cavalry Regiment, is it going to be stabbed to the Ministry of War?

But now the War Department is completely controlled by the Duke of Wellington, and the current Minister of War Henry Harding is the deputy and loyal younger brother of the Duke of Wellington for many years.

Moreover, the salary of the Minister of War is as high as 5000 pounds per year, and there are many other ways to get money. If it doesn't work, he can also repeat the same trick and rent out the infantry guards to pull coal. Why worry about this little money from contract slaves and Scotland Yard What about the dozens of guns?

You know, Scotland Yard's annual expenditure is only about 30 pounds, how much money can be deducted even if it is hard deducted?
Arthur couldn't figure it out.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply didn't want to.

He cleared his throat and continued, "Then let's report on this week's work now. Is the situation in the jurisdiction still normal?"

"It's the same old thing, there's a lot of petty crime, but there's not a lot of violent crime."

"The protest rallies are also limited to a certain range. It can be seen that the rallies this time are highly organized and basically did not cross the boundary."

"The monitoring activities of several key organizations and associations in the jurisdiction are also running smoothly, and it is currently not clear that they have any intention to set off criminal activities."

The sheriffs and undercover police officers reported on the work content of the week one by one. Arthur listened and took notes, and the meeting came to an end in a short while.

He sorted out the documents on the desktop: "Finally, next week, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will arrange for the police to deploy police officers from the police district to support the Liverpool City Government and ensure the successful opening of the Manchester-Liverpool railway. In addition, if anything happens in each jurisdiction, please report to the police in time. I inform.

Although the French revolution seems to be progressing rapidly, and according to the news reported in the newspapers in the past two days, it seems that Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, has been confirmed to take the throne, and the domestic situation in France has also begun to stabilize, and the revolution seems to have come to an end .

But Scotland Yard still asked us to closely monitor the developments in London. After all, no one can be sure how big the aftermath of the French Revolution will be.

Now the entire cabinet is very nervous, don't be confused about work at this time, otherwise it won't be a matter of resigning. "

"Yes, sir!"

Arthur sorted out the documents at hand and was planning to go out for a while.

Suddenly, Tom knocked on the opened door: "Arthur?"

Arthur looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tom looked around, raised his hand to cover his ear and said, "A person from the bureau came to report the crime."

"It's enough to report and register normally, why do you need to notify me specifically?"

Tom had a bitter face, and he smiled bitterly: "No, this case feels a little tricky this time. The reporter said that one of his friends was lost, and he speculated that he might have been kidnapped. Of course, the most important thing is, His friend is a Frenchman."

(End of this chapter)