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1886, December
The Convict Office at Scotland Yard

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Published in in the anonymous article "The Metropolitan Police" in "Time: A Monthly Magazine" edited by E.M. Abdy-Williams, New Series, Volume IV, December 1886, p.656
 
The convict office in Scotland Yard forms part of the department. It is under a chief inspector. Classified albums of the photographs and marks of all discharged convicts on license and persons under police supervision in England are kept at this office. The antecedents of those living in the Metropolitan Police district are also entered in supervision registers, as well as those particulars concerning their conduct during the currency of their license or supervision as are obtainable in the periodical visits which they make.
 
Individuals under remand or awaiting trial in the Metropolitan and City Police districts are visited at prisons by selected warders from metropolitan gaols and police from each division for the identification of any person who has previously been convicted. Persons recognised as of this class have their previous convictions proved against them.
 
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