Detective policing

Question 1

What was clear by the 1840s?

Answer 1

That while the Bow street runners had offered an effective force, the new police had to replicate it

Question 2

Metropolitan police constables were effective in preventing crime, but were not equipped to what?

Answer 2

Undertake complex investigations

Question 3

What did the press do as a result of the Daniel Good case of 1842?

Answer 3

• The press exploited the police about how incapable they were at investigating crimes
• The press suggested that a detective branch should be established

Question 4

The detective branch established under the police commissioner consisted of six sergeants, and two superintendents who feared what?

Answer 4

The system replicated that of Fouche in France

Question 5

How many men did the detective branch increase to in 1856?

Answer 5

10

Question 6

What happened to the detective branch in the 1860s?

Answer 6

-Numbers were increased at HQ and detectives attached to police stations in the divisions

Question 7

When was the Scotland Yard established?

Answer 7

1875

Question 8

What did the case of William Kurr in 1877 reveal?

Answer 8

• The corruption of the detective branch
• Three inspectors sentenced to two years imprisonment
• Committee of inquiry leads to the establishment of the CID

Question 9

Who established the CID which comprised of 259 men out of a force of just under 10,000

Answer 9

Charles Vincent

Question 10

How many men were stationed at Scotland yard?

Answer 10

30

Question 11

How were detectives beginning to be viewed around the 1870s?

Answer 11

Increasing professionalism as evidenced by new procedures for investigation

Question 12

What was an initial rule for dealing with murder cases released in 1879?

Answer 12

“The body must not be moved, nor anything about it or in the room or place interfered with and the public must be excluded”

Question 13

True or false? The image of the police detective as a professional with sophisticated skills was slow to emerge after 1842

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What was a significant problem of the ascent of the detective in England?

Answer 14

-Was that detection and uniform branches were integrated in the English system of policing and detectives often undertook preventative policing

Question 15

What was the role of the detective in continental Europe?

Answer 15

A distinct and recognisable vocation (typically had detective branches distinct from uniformed police and had little organisational connection with them)

Question 16

Where did specialisation begin to emerge among the detectives?

Answer 16

Scotland Yard

Question 17

What was the importance of the Jack the Ripper case?

Answer 17

-Each police move in this case was reported in great detail and as time passed reports became more and more critical

Question 18

How did the press portray detectives in the Jack the ripper case?

Answer 18

As incompetent, as they failed to track down Jack the Ripper

Question 19

What did the Tory press sugest?

Answer 19

Better pay, limited numbers of female police, more surveillance, harsher sentences

Question 20

True or false In the German states, particularly Prussia, during the 19th century distinct policing i.e. political crime, criminal policing and street policing were established

Answer 20

True

Question 21

When was the Kriminalpolizei was established?

Answer 21

In 1872 - following the unification of Germany the previous year

Question 22

What did the reforms of 1885 in Germany consist of?

Answer 22

Different departments for different sorts of crime

• Inspection A was geographic
• Inspection B concentrated on professional theft in all its varieties, also connected to criminal police (required scientific training
• Inspection C investigations for legal or business crimes

Question 23

What happened as a result of reforms in 1899 Berlin?

Answer 23

-More reform was undertaken in 1899

after the trial of a tailor and pimp called Hugo Guthmann

Question 24

After a nine day trial Guthmann was acquitted, why?

Answer 24

Because the police failed to acquire some pieces of vital evidence

Question 25

What happened as a result of the Guthmann trial?

Answer 25

Overhaul of police procedure was proposed beginning with investigation of the crime scene

Question 26

What was done in 1901?

Answer 26

Specialised people dealt with murder cases