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1688

Bloody code introduced

1820s

Bloody code abolished

1965

Last use of capital punishment

1829

Met police act (1st professional force in london)

1856

Police act (police forces essential in every town)

1749

Bow Street runners (1st form of police forces, eventually paid by government)