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Public Security:—
Police Prosecutions in Bahrain Courts.
Number of Number of Number of Number of
Cases. persons persons persons
accused. convicted, acquitted.
Thefts............................................. 94 146 122 24
Attempted theft ....................... 10 19 14 5
Receiving stolen property 3 4 2 2
Cheating............................................. 4 4 4
Criminal breach of trust 2 2 1 1
Use of criminal force and assault 66 108 78 30
Abduction and kidnapping 1 1 1
Unnatural offences ....................... 2 2 2
Public nuisance .. 2 5 4 1
Distilling liquor.................................. 2 4 3 z
Liquor drinking and possessing of liquor 9 12 11 1
Opium and hashish ....................... 5 5 5
Gambling .................................. 8 34 27 7
Possession of unregistered arms 4 5 4 z
Profiteering 10 25 24 1
Smuggling ............................... 6 23 18 5
Hoarding 4 5 3 2
232 404 323 81

Police Prosecutions in Agency Courts.
Number of Number of Number of Number of
Cases. persons persons persons
accused. convicted. acquitted.
Attempted suicide ....................... 4 4 1 3
Culpable homicide ....................... I 1 I
Thefts............................................ 45 46 38 8
Attempted thefts ....................... 3 3 2 1
Receiving stolen property 1 1 1
Cheating............................................. 3 3 3
Use of criminal force and assault 3 3 3
Distilling liquor.................................. 3 5 4 1
Liquor drinking and possessing of liquor 13 18 14 4
Opium and hashish ....................... 5 8 6 2
Gambling .................................. 4 17 17
85 109 90 19
Grime.—There were few serious crimes during the year, there was one case of culpable homicide
in which the victim was a woman of the town and the accused an Iraqi. Four cases of suspected
suicide, which is of rare occurrence in Bahrain, were reported to .e police but in none of the cases
was suicide committed. Out of 414 cases of thefts which were reported to the police 139 resulted
in court cases and 275 were not detected. Several notorious foreign characters, were repatriated to
their own countries. Out of 513 persons who were prosecuted in all courts on criminal charges, 109
were foreigners.
The two most important cases which the police brought into the Bahrain courts during the
year were one in which a Bahrain Nakhuda was charged with having appropriated Rs. 80,000 from
a parcel of notes with which he was entrusted by a merchant in Kuwait and the case of an employee
in the Indian Post Office who was charged with stealing the contents of registered letters. In the first
case the accused was found not guilty and in the second case the accused was convicted and sentenced
to two years’ hard labour and a fine.