The+Police+Force

= __**The Police Force**__ =

The person that invented the Police Force is called Sir Robert Peel. He was born on the 5th February 1788, died on the 2nd July 1850. Until 1829, law enforcement had a lacking of organisation. As London expanded during the 18th and 19th centries. The whole question of maintaining law and order had become matter of public concern. Conservative statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. While Home Secretary, Peel helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as "bobbies" (in England) and "Peelers" (in Ireland).





__**What was life like without/before the Police Force?**__ Life before the police force, which was up until 1829, wasn't really that bad. There was alot of enfourcement witht the goverment. Instead of the police the goverment would come into play, you would go to court and then, if guilty you would be executed. This was only on a big scale for things like obvious murder. But for little things like theift, that was where enfourcement was needed most. After some time, this needed seeing to. After the Force was invented, the world was a better place. Of course there was people still stealing and committing crimes. As they do today! **__The Police Force__** __** What were the objections to the forming of a police force? **__

Some people believed that if the people wanted one they should do it themselves, not have the government do it for them. It was also feared that the police force would be used to arrest opponents of the government, stop protests and destroy free speech. It was thought that the idea of a police force belonged in a foreign country. __** How did it come about? **__

Robert Peel became the Tory Home Secretary in 1822. The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829 set up an organised police force for London, with 17 divisions, each with 4 inspectors and 144 constables. It was to be controlled from Scotland Yard, and answerable to the Home Secretary. __** What were the early police like? **__

They became known as 'Peelers' and 'Bobbies' after their founder, and wore a dark blue longcoat and a tall hat which they could use to stand on and look over walls. Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into the people because of the way soldiers had been used to smash protests. The only weapon was a truncheon.

They hated the Peelers. Many were poor quality - drunks and bullies. Of the first 2,800 new policemen, only 600 kept their jobs. The first policeman, given the number 1, was sacked after only FOUR HOURS! (He was legless) In 1833 PC Robert Culley was stabbed to death after the police broke up a political meeting. The jury acquitted the man who killed him, and a newspaper awarded the jurors medals! JPs were also angry that they had no control of the police. Eventually however the impact upon crime, particularly organised crime led to an acceptance, if not approval, of the Bobbies.
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