POLICING DURING AND AFTER WW1 Flashcards
How many were sworn in to help policing ?
24,000
what were the polices role during ww1?
unpleasant tasks of surveillance of behaviour, monitoring foreigners, women, pin pointing trouble makers and drafting them to army
when was. the women police founded? and what did they do?
1914, to deal with sex work, guarding barracks where military personel gathered
what did the major strike of metropolitan police ask for in 1918?
better pay and conditions and union recognition -
why did police in europe need to uphold democracy?
there was political unrest and a concern about extreme left and right
what new technology and techniques did poice in europe bring in late 19th century early 20th?
fingerprinting, teletypes, telegraph, bertillon measurements, cars , 1929 police box system, 1937 999 system est, 1935 metropolitan police forsensic lab
what was happening in Weimar Germany post war?
increase in violent and property crime, organised crime more prevelant
what did the treaty of versailles prohibit the weimar constables from doing?
the organisation of weiamr constables along military lines, and this forced police to become more professional law enforcement agency
what were the police relations like?
tried to show they were not like imperial police and were better by having police exhibitions like in 1926 to make public more observant
