Who are the real founders of policing?

At today’s The West India Committee Robert Peel Charles Dickens The Princess Alice (3) Every modern value, £27 approaches Patrick Colquhoun (1) creates the visits the disaster occurs. 600 police force in million worth to devise a plan for policing, and Metropolitan Thames Police die in minutes. The the world can of goods are are later joined by John Harriott Police based on and writes Thames Police 1989 trace their roots stolen each (2). The Thames Police are the same ideals about them. recover the bodies of back to the year from established in July in and of preventative the dead. Thames Police. West Indian are very successful in preventing policing as the 1851 ships by crime. Many river workers are Thames Police. 1878 2017 workers and unhappy of being deprived of their thieves on the ‘perks’, leading to a riot at the Police Office in October, where river. 1839 Workers view Police Officer Gabriel Franks dies. these goods as 1798 ‘perks’ of the 1829 The Marchioness disaster job. takes place, the worst The Thames Police join 1800 since the Princess Alice the The Thames Police are now disaster. The Thames 1790 and become Thames called the Marine Policing Police arrive in minutes Division. They become Unit (4) and houses the 1811 to help save 51 lives. They known as ‘Black Beetles’ Metropolitan Police’s Dive Due to their later help retrieve the due to the colour of their and Climbing units. They 1796 great success, Marchioness and the first ever uniform. are still based at the same the Thames bodies of the dead. site in Wapping as in 1798. Police are nationalised. Two families are killed in the Ratcliffe Highway murders; the Marrs and the Williamsons. The Patrick Colquhoun (1) is a Magistrate Thames Police are the first on the in . He writes about a new scene and the murders leave the idea of preventative policing in his town in fear resulting in officers influential work; ‘A Treatise on the leaving the river to patrol the streets Police of the Metropolis.’ Until now, of Wapping. This shows that a policing has only reacted to crime, preventative police force is also rather than trying to prevent it. needed on land to protect people. (1) (2) (3) (4)

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