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Victorian Police Officer with itinerant circa 1900 - recreation. The officer is pictured wearing a duty armband on his left wrist. London in the early 1800s had a population of nearly a million and a half people but was policed by only 450 constables and 4,500 night watchmen.
The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. c. 44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , introduced by Sir Robert Peel , which established the Metropolitan Police .
Portrait of Commissioner Judge Margaret McMurdo AC FAAL. The Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants - An inquiry into Victoria Police's use of Nicola Gobbo as a human source, referred to in the press as Lawyer X Royal Commission, [1] was a royal commission in Victoria, Australia set up to examine the actions of Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police whilst Gobbo, also referred to ...
Prostitution: Prevention and reform in England, 1860–1914 (Routledge, 2012) Boddice, Rob. The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (2016) Briggs, Asa. The Age of Improvement, 1783–1867 (1959). Churchill, David. Crime control and everyday life in the Victorian city: the police and the public (2017).
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
The Greater Manchester Police Museum is a former police station converted into a museum and archives detailing the history of policing in Greater Manchester, England. It was home to Manchester City Police and then its successors Manchester and Salford Police and Greater Manchester Police from 1879 until 1979.
[14] [12] This returned prison life to the harsh standards of the early 19th century, undoing decades of reform which had sought to transfer the prison from a place of punishment to a place of rehabilitation. [12] [7] The harsh measures remained in force until the Prisons Act 1898 which implemented reforms. The moral panic of 1862–63 ...
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