Police Administration Classic

Excerpt from American Police Administration: A Handbook on Police Organization, and Methods of Administration, in American Cities During the first quarter of the last century the English parliament made a number of inquiries into the police problem, but it was not until 1828 that a solution was found. In that year Sir Robert Peel, then Secretary of State for Home Affairs, secured the passage of a statute which abolished the old system of watch and ward, and substituted in its place a professional police force, uni formed, under strict discipline and placed under the direct control of a commissioner responsible to the national gov ernment. This force was placed in charge of a new metro politan police district comprising the area surrounding the old city of London. This was the first modern police organization. It was neither civilian nor military, but semi military. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.