The Shadow of Great Chapter 304 - 304 196 Parliament Immunity 4K

??304: Chapter 196 Parliant Immunity (4K)

304: Chapter 196 Parliant Immunity (4K)

London, Westminster, 4 Whitehall, Greater London Police Departnt.

Compared to half a year ago, Arthur’s office had undergone many changes.

The most obvious was the addition of several naplates outside the office door, intended to showcase functions and authority.

Besides the formidable-sounding Criminal Investigation Departnt of the Greater London Police Departnt, there was also a seemingly inconsequential sign—Office of External Liaison of the Greater London Police Departnt.

Of course, the Office of External Liaison was only the public-facing term; most people within the system of the Ho Office referred to it as the London Police Intelligence Bureau.

After this year’s public sector budget was approved by Parliant, Arthur, who had just made significant contributions on Britain’s behalf in a London conference, received a generous grant from the Ho Office.

Although the funds he could currently mobilize were far from reaching the ever-expanding scale of Scotland Yard, for an independent entity that initially had only five staff, scraping together ten thousand pounds from the Ho Office was already quite satisfying.

What exactly did this ten thousand pounds of financial allocation an?

According to the “Administration Regulations of the London Police Intelligence Bureau,” drafted by Arthur and sanctioned by the Ho Office, the bureau categorized its intelligence personnel into permanent and temporary.

Permanent staff was further divided into three levels.

From level one to three, they could respectively draw an annual intelligence allowance of one hundred pounds, eighty pounds, and fifty pounds from the bureau.

Therefore, even if all the bureau’s staff were considered level one intelligence personnel, the yearly expenditure would amount to no more than a re five hundred pounds.

How to spend the remaining nine thousand five hundred pounds beca an issue that vexed Arthur considerably.

Based on the historical experience that Arthur learned in his history studies, staff expansion was, of course, the best and most tangible solution since throughout history, both dostically and abroad, the more people under one’s command, the greater the departnt’s power.

However, as an organization with a sensitive work function, the Police Intelligence Departnt, despite its desire to recruit, couldn’t proceed haphazardly.

Otherwise, recruiting a few unreliable people, causing so trouble, a newly established small organization like the London Police Intelligence Bureau would not endure the scrutiny of the Cabinet and Parliant.

So, for the sake of caution and to expedite the spending of funds, Arthur could only resort to adding his few old friends to the bureau’s roster.

Darwin and Eld, far away in South Arica, had been hoodwinked into signing work contracts in a little diner at the Port of Plymouth before they left.

The recently prosperous landowner Mr.

Wheatstone was also coerced into marking his thumbprint on the contract and signing his life away.

Now, Mr.

Wheatstone has transford into the London Police Intelligence Bureau’s science advisor, though officially, he still hung the title under Scotland Yard.

Even the broad-browed, curly-haired French fat man, Great Dumas, had now betrayed republicanism and sided with Britain.

As for Miss Fiona Ivan, who had just been promoted to Deputy Housekeeper at the Russian Embassy, Arthur generously settled all overdue paynts to her in one go.

But given her surplus of craftiness, Arthur felt her official status needed further consideration.

After all, compared to soone like Fiona, who had developed a set way of thinking, Arthur believed that college graduates fresh out of university had a clearer outlook.

Moreover, one obvious advantage of recruiting from universities was that those who could afford higher education seed to co from generally well-off families and could even choose to work without pay.

This phenonon wasn’t limited to students; it was particularly evident among the middle-class groups with a lot of spare ti, such as poets, painters, and writers.

Influenced, perhaps, by the increasingly popular magazine “British,” these readers of the middle class, who had read detective stories from the “Hastings Case Files” by the fashionable novelist Arthur Sigma, developed a strong interest in the erging profession of detective.

Although the reputation of Scotland Yard officers was still subpar, the ntion of police detectives commanded their respect.

If you told them that we were recruiting police inforrs, they would likely be displeased; not only displeased but they would also curse Scotland Yard for engaging in police rule and autocracy.

But tell them that London’s morality is declining, cri rates are soaring, and we are short of hands, in need of good citizens to voluntarily act as detective assistants, and these cultured gentlen and ladies would eagerly extend a helping hand.

Although the London Police Intelligence Bureau’s liaison personnel grew slowly, the Criminal Investigation Departnt of the Greater London Police Departnt, led by Arthur, expanded rapidly over the past six months.

Today’s Criminal Investigation Departnt boasted twenty-five professional detectives, tasked with investigating various serious cases.

Perhaps realizing that Arthur’s rise to power within Scotland Yard was unstoppable, in the face of history’s tide, Chief Rowan chose a cyclical work ethic of taking breaks on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, continuing to find replacents on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and resting on Sundays.