POLICING IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Question 1

What did industrialisation do to city of london?

Answer 1

brought people from the country to come to cities, many lived in slums and this bred crime

Question 2

why did a range of late 18th century and early 19th century incidents need reformation of policing ?

Answer 2

lack of preventative policing led to select commity and there was still no centralised police force

Question 3

what did Patrick colquhoun envision when he wrote treatise on metropolitan police in 1796?

Answer 3

a police force forming around stipendary magistrate system, metropolitan police became parallel to this system

Question 4

what was sir robert peels metropolitan police bill?

Answer 4

he wanted single unified, uniform style police force across entire metropolis, the desire for order and tidiness on streets of late 18th century, early 19th century cities

Question 5

why was their some opposition to the police at first?

Answer 5

some parishes objected to loss of control over the way they policed, and there was a concern that police would branch into military. to control population

Question 6

what were these new recruits like?

Answer 6

poorly educated, effective in preventative policing but in first 2 years nearly 2/3 had been dismissed for drunkness