Robert Peel

When it comes to policing, many problems are still occur that were prevalent when policing first began. The Metropolitan Police Act settled the first organized police force in London. This act was introduced by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Members of this organization would replace watchmen and parish constables. Officers, also known as members of this police force were called “bobbies”, which came after the creator. This organization was led by two magistrates and later on were given the title,…

Police brutality is a real issue in today’s society due to the media making a big deal about it. This author swears, with his right hand on the bible, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and everything but the truth. Police brutality doesn’t just occur in the US it happens all over the world but however there are justified reasons why police have to do what they got to do to survive. On the other hand some police do brutally use too much force and those are the police that get put on the news…

of treating everyone equally. The purpose of this research paper is to review briefly the history of the police, discuss the modern-day reality of police work, and assess the future of policing. It was Sir Robert Peel, the British Home Secretary, who created a 3,000-strong police force. Peel drafted and then guided through Parliament the “Act for Improving the…

Modern Policing’s Evolution Since its Inception First Phase of Modern Policing: 1829 – 1945 The first phase of modern policing commenced in April 1829, as Sir Robert Peel introduced “A Bill for Improving the Police in and Near the Metropolis” (Lyman, 1964, p. 150); this bill mirrored Peel’s nine principles and established what modern ethical policing would constitute. It was operationalized into what was known as the London Metropolitan Police (LMP). The LMP, a government police force (p. 150),…

Series name: Did you know? Episode name: The stories behind 2 bizarre archaic laws Purpose: mainly to entertain and also to inform the audience Audience: adults interested in British history Welcome to ‘Did you know?’ podcast series. This podcast episode is recorded by Mayya McManus, student of the Wirral Metropolitan College on the 6th of April 2016. Today I will be talking about the stories behind odd and outdated laws which are not urban myths and are still in force in Britain. Perhaps, you…

control, and arrested criminals (Virginia). In Rome the job was left to the army instead of an actual organization. The first “professional” police force was established in London in 1829 (National Archive) and was thought up by a man called Sir Robert Peel. He devised certain principles that are now the back bone of modern policing worldwide. One of such is that the police depends on the approval and trust of the public to effectively do their jobs, yet why should we trust the police if they…

The metropolitan police act was introduced in 1829 by the then home secretary Robert Peel. The changing landscape and growing urbanisation, due to the industrial revolution, called for more order and a formalisation of police. A less formal system of social control worked well for hundreds of years, particularly in more rural and sparsely populated regions, however the mass genesis to cities for work in the early 19th century made it a lot harder to enforce the law. (Mason, 2004). Initially,…

I was very unfamiliar with the establishment and structure of the early forms of a police forces and they way evolved into the police force that is seen today prior to reading these two chapters. Although it did not change the way I currently view policing in our society, I have learned that the way policing is carried out today is much different that the way it was carried out even a century ago. Rome for example, used a militarized Praetorian Guard hundred men to protect the emperor and the…

The transition into the new police phase was predominantly due to the contentious reforms of Sir Peel, during his time as the Home Secretary. Government funding enabled the coordination of 3,000 police officers under the Metropolitan Police Act (1829). Subsequent enactments, such as the County and Borough Police Act (1856), detailed further-reaching…

approach on crime was on the horizon, Reagan tried to be much tougher on drug crimes, he now wanted the FBI involved with drug crimes, and there was also the development of RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations). RICO was an idea by Robert Blakely that allowed prosecutors to go after everything a guilty party had earned with money from the illegal crimes. Reagan also wanted to do away with Miranda, exclusionary rule, parole, and bail. They would also focus on marijuana, calling…