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  2. Peelian principles - Wikipedia

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    The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in these principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries such as Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. [citation needed] In this model of policing, police officers are ...

  3. Robert Peel - Wikipedia

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    Repeal of Corn Laws. v. t. e. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice (1822–1827, 1828–1830).

  4. Metropolitan Police Act 1829 - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced by Sir Robert Peel, which established the Metropolitan Police. This was to be responsible for policing the newly created Metropolitan Police District, which consisted of the City of Westminster and parts of Middlesex, Surrey, and ...

  5. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In United States constitutional law, the police power is the capacity of the states and the federal government to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants. [1] Police power is defined in each jurisdiction by the legislative body ...

  6. History of law enforcement in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Middle Ages. Early concepts of policing in Britain were based on the ancient laws which relied heavily on all subjects of the crown having a responsibility to assist in maintaining law and order. The posse comitatus originated in ninth century England along with the creation of the office of sheriff.

  7. Law enforcement in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of the United Kingdom: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. [nb 1] Most law enforcement duties are carried out by those who hold the office of police constable of a territorial police force. As of 2021, there were 39 territorial police ...

  8. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  9. The Engineering of Consent - Wikipedia

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    The idea of “Engineering of Consent” was motivated by Freud ’s idea that humans are irrational beings, and are motivated primarily by inner desires hidden in their unconscious. If one understood what those unconscious desires were, then one could use this to one’s advantage to sell products and increase sales. [8]