Law Enforcement 1700-1900

responsibility for industrial law enforcement = 10% local communities, 35% government, 55% police

Bow Street Runners 1748-1829

  • wanted too deter criminals

  • started by Fielding Brothers

  • paid by Government

  • collected and shared information with other organisations

  • no uniform

  • Middlesex Justice Act 1792 - more police officers

  • paid rather than volunteers

Metropolitan Police 1829-56

  • England’s first professional police force

  • Paid

  • divided into districts, each one having 4 inspectors and 144 constables

  • patrolling the beat

  • blue uniform

  • unpopular with public - threat to freedom/ expensive

  • Police Act 1856 all town must have a police force

Developing in Police Forces

  • deterrence through detecting criminals

  • first National crime records - 1869

  • telegraph communication - share information

  • CID in 1842

  • 200 detectives employed in 1878

  • 1902 - used fingerprints at the crime scene

  • reduce corruption in police force

  • detectives used to solve crimes