118 THE SINDH POLICE. 



conservative arrangements at Sukkur is highly 

 creditable to the local authorities. The streets 

 are kept admirably clean. Roads are laid out 

 and excavations filled up, tending greatly to 

 public health in crowded localities. The Sindh 

 police is, without exception, the best in India ; 

 and here it may not be out of place to give a 

 brief description of that body, which has served 

 as a model for the recently established military 

 police in central India. 



The Sindh police is composed of horse, foot, 

 and camel Sowars, all on a military organiz- 

 ation. The horse and camel Sowars are sta- 

 tioned at Thannahs, or posts, throughout the 

 entire province, and are constantly engaged in 

 patrolling the country ; the duty of the camel 

 Sowars being principally confined to those dis- 

 tricts bordering on the Desert, where, fi^om the 

 nature of the soil, the camel is found greatly 

 superior to the horse. Tlie infantry are com- 

 posed of the rural and city police. The 

 mounted police number 1074 Sowars. This 

 body is organised and uniformly equipped 

 as a regiment of irregular cavalry, the Sowars 

 being armed with light single-barrelled per- 

 cussion carbines and sabres. One hundred 



