Engineers making fortifications at Stobs Camp in 1914, showing the extent of the camp
‘The people looked upon the police and every individual constable as a friend’
Besides the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA), another piece of legislation which increased the workload of the police was the Aliens Restriction Act of 1914. It required that enemy aliens of military age should be interned or repatriated. The extra administrative work led the chief constable of Peeblesshire, Sholto W. Douglas, to ask his police committee for a sergeant Hodge to be promoted:
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