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  2. Law enforcement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Modern policing began to emerge in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, influenced by the British model of policing established in 1829 based on the Peelian principles. [37] [45] The first organized, publicly funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, [46] New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.

  3. Police - Wikipedia

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    [77] The Quebec City Police Service was established in 1840. [76] A national police service, the Dominion Police, was founded in 1868. Initially the Dominion Police provided security for parliament, but its responsibilities quickly grew. In 1870, Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory were incorporated into the country.

  4. State police (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In 1919 Virginia established a motor vehicle enforcement agency and it was established as state police in 1932. Kentucky established a highway patrol in 1935 and it was established as state police in 1948, but these states, located on the border of the previous Civil War south, were more under the watchful eye of the federal government than ...

  5. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Donald J. Guilfoil, a detective with the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association, initiated the federal legislation to establish a National Police Memorial in 1972. . Representative Mario Biaggi, formerly a highly decorated police officer, then took up the cause and joined forces with U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) to establish the national memorial to honor all of America's fallen ...

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

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  7. Integrated National Police - Wikipedia

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    The National Police Commission was established in 1966 to improve the professionalism and training of local police and exercised some supervisory authority over the police. [ 1 ]

  8. Swedish Police Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish Police Authority (Swedish: Polismyndigheten) is the national police force (Polisen) of Sweden.The first modern police force in Sweden was established in the mid-19th century, and the police remained in effect under local government control up until 1965, when it was nationalized and became increasingly centralized, [3] to finally organize under one authority January 1, 2015.

  9. Police Day - Wikipedia

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    Its date "1-10" refers to the emergency number 110 used in communities and celebrates the first 110 alarm service desk for police service in the country that established in Canton since 1986. [ 13 ] Egypt