03. Extension to police forces

Municipal Corporations Act and Rural Police Act

When was the Municipal Corporations act passed?

1835

What was passed in 1835?

Municipal Corporations act

When was the Rural police act passed?

1839

What was passed in 1839

Rural police act

What did the Municipal Corporations act allow?

Boroughs could set up police forces under the borough watch committee if they wanted

What failing effect of the Municipal Corporations act?

Very few boroughs set up police forces

How many boroughs set up police forces and by when?

By 1837 93/171 boroughs had police forces

What act allowed boroughs to set up police forces under the borough watch committee if they wanted?

Municipal Corporations Act

What did the Rural Police act allow?

JPs to set up police forces in their counties

Why did people not like the rural police act?

Because of the cost

What was the Rural Police Act not and what did this cause?

Compulsory so only 55 counties had police forces by 1856

What boroughs were the first to establish police?

Essex and Cambridge

What Welsh counties established police forces first?

Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire in 1840, then Glamorgan in 1841