Developments Police

Question 1

What is a JP (Justice of Peace)

Answer 1

Keeps law and order in the country
Can join with other Jo’s (QuaRter sessions)
Enforces law on wages prices and drunkenness

Question 2

What is the advantages of a JP

Answer 2

Local and noble
Saw it as part of his role in community
Was an honour to serve
High social position

Question 3

What are the disadvantages of being a JP

Answer 3

They were unpaid 
Overworked 
Untrained
Abused their power
Supported their own class

Question 4

What wass a constable

Answer 4

For 1 year. 
Operated in villages
Gathered information. 
Made arrests
Patrolled streets
Protected property

Question 5

What are the advantages of being a constable

Answer 5

A form of community that worked in small populations

Everyone helped eachover

Question 6

What are the disadvantages of being a constable

Answer 6

Unpaid
Untrained
Unarmed
No uniform
Not very many 
No one wanted to do it

Question 7

What is the night watch (Charley)

Answer 7

1 person to patrol number of streets
Looking out for anything suspicious
Patrol sunset to sunrise
To keep prisoners in stocks or cages

Question 8

What are the advantages of a nightwatch Charley

Answer 8

First person to be full time and paid

Kept streets safe at night

Question 9

What are the disadvantages of a night watch Charley

Answer 9

Typically old
Infirm
Weak
Drunk
Incapable
Public saw them as a joke or a charley

Question 10

When was the metropolitan police established?

Answer 10

1829 by Sir Robert Peel a Home Secretary

Question 11

When was the county and borough act established

Answer 11

1856, compulsory to have a police force in towns

Question 12

When was fingerprinting introduced

Answer 12

1901

Question 13

What was the municipal corporations Act

Answer 13

1835, allowing borough towns to set up police force if they wanted to

Question 14

What was the welsh example of policing during the Tudor times

Answer 14

Act of Union which was founded by Sir Edward Stradling

Question 15

What inspired the metropolitan police

Answer 15

Robert Peel saw the success of the bow street runners. This was heavily influenced to fabricate a new effective way of maintaining the law.

Question 16

What specialised crimes did the bow street runners manage to get rid of

Answer 16

Highway robbery

Question 17

How did the Merthyr rising of 1831 show there needed to be police and order ?

Answer 17

There was much poverty and peoples wages were being cut. This was largely a simmering unrest for many years

Question 18

Where was the most crime rate notorious

Answer 18

In london, peel argued the crime rate was increasing in industrial towns like london. Existing methods such as constables and jps weren’t that effective.

Question 19

Name the welsh example for Tudor and Stuart times

Answer 19

Sir Edward Stradling who was a Welsh JP. The English system of policing was adopted in wales following Act of Union