They say to know where you are going you must know where you have been first. What this means is to understand who or what we are, we must look at what got us to that point? The same can be said about police work. We weren’t always as effective as we are today, and a lot of that must do with the Metropolitan Police Act by the father of police work Sir Robert Peel. In this paper, I will be looking at the origins and events that caused the Metropolitan Police Act to take place. The new process that were implemented to police work. As well as how this reform changed American police work as well. To understand how the Metropolitan Police Act came into effect. We must look at the events that caused the reform to take place. It all had to do thanks
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There are a few different ideas as to why. The first idea is because Peel wanted a unified force that was placed under central control that could be used to maintain public order that didn’t rely on the army. Peels idea was people in the military are trained to use lethal force. What Peel wanted were officers who could restored and maintain order without the use of guns. His second reason for pushing for the reform. Was to provide metropolis with more watchmen, better watchmen, and pay these watchmen better wages then poorly trained ones. His idea was that if we have better watchmen that do a better job than our current ones. Then they should be paid more. In a way, this was kind of like the carrot on the string that not only rewarded watchmen for doing an efficient job, but also encouraged watchmen whose performance was to be questionable, to improve how they did their …show more content…
According to (https://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/Met6Kt/MetHistory/mhFormMetPol.html 2009) “A receiver was also appointed to take control of financial matters. The first receiver, originally conceived as another commissioner, was John Wray.” The person who was a receiver pretty much dealt with the department’s budget, spending, as well as raises for any officers. Moving away from England. The Metropolitan Police Act also influenced American policing. In fact, if you look at the police chain of command system you can argue that we have that thanks to the Metropolitan Police Act. While we may have added to the rank system. The original idea stems back to Peels design. Continuing with this topic many police departments in America adopted the same tenets that Peel had established. One example of these tenets we see today, and throughout history is the idea of departments must work together with the community to promote a partnership between communities and the local police. We see this even in our community of Wausau Wisconsin with programs such as community policing, the D.A.R,E program, and even bicycle officers. These police methods stem back to Peels idea of working with the community to promote that
There are a few different ideas as to why. The first idea is because Peel wanted a unified force that was placed under central control that could be used to maintain public order that didn’t rely on the army. Peels idea was people in the military are trained to use lethal force. What Peel wanted were officers who could restored and maintain order without the use of guns. His second reason for pushing for the reform. Was to provide metropolis with more watchmen, better watchmen, and pay these watchmen better wages then poorly trained ones. His idea was that if we have better watchmen that do a better job than our current ones. Then they should be paid more. In a way, this was kind of like the carrot on the string that not only rewarded watchmen for doing an efficient job, but also encouraged watchmen whose performance was to be questionable, to improve how they did their …show more content…
According to (https://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/Met6Kt/MetHistory/mhFormMetPol.html 2009) “A receiver was also appointed to take control of financial matters. The first receiver, originally conceived as another commissioner, was John Wray.” The person who was a receiver pretty much dealt with the department’s budget, spending, as well as raises for any officers. Moving away from England. The Metropolitan Police Act also influenced American policing. In fact, if you look at the police chain of command system you can argue that we have that thanks to the Metropolitan Police Act. While we may have added to the rank system. The original idea stems back to Peels design. Continuing with this topic many police departments in America adopted the same tenets that Peel had established. One example of these tenets we see today, and throughout history is the idea of departments must work together with the community to promote a partnership between communities and the local police. We see this even in our community of Wausau Wisconsin with programs such as community policing, the D.A.R,E program, and even bicycle officers. These police methods stem back to Peels idea of working with the community to promote that