text:  For example it was stated by Mr Millar the head of the Glasgow police (a most able and active officer ) in a letter read at the county meeting of Lanarkshire on 21st January 1843 on the subject of a police for the rural district of that and the adjoining counties that in the three months immediately preceding that date _ninety-one_ cases of theft chiefly by housebreaking had been reported at the Glasgow police-office committed in the neighbourhood of Glasgow but beyond the police bounds; and that from his own information and that of the other officers of his establishment this number great as it was was not _a third_ of the crimes of that description which had actually been committed during that period