law enforcement: 1700-1900

• what local law enforcement continued in 1700-1900?

  parish constables, watchmen, and part-time soldiers
• what did more towns start to do for local law enforcement?

  pay salaries to constables and watchmen
• what was the bow street runners?


  a crime fighting team established in London in 1748.
• who established the bow street runners?


  chief magistrate, henry fielding
• who did fielding appoint ,as what, that then became known as the bow street runners?


  theif takers as principal officers
• who took over the runners in 1754?


  John Fielding
• what did the fielding brothers do at first for their services?


  charged fees
• when did the bow street runners officially get paid by the government? and what did that make them?


  1785, the first modern detective force
• how did the bow street runners become increasingly professional?


  they organised regular foot and horse patrols along major roads and sharing information with other law enforcers.
• what did the success of the bow street runners lead to?


  more detective offices being set up in middlesex and westminster.
• what did the Middlesex Justice Act do and in what year was it established?


  set up further offices, 1792.
• what was set up in London, in 1829 and how?


  England's first professional police force by the Metropolitan Police Act.
• how many districts were there in London that had their own police divisions?

  17
• what did those 17 districts hace in each police division?

  4 inspectors and 144 constables
• what did the constables do?


  patrol their beats to catch criminals
• why did the constables wear blue overcoats and top hats?


  to distinguish them from the army
• what did the 1856 Police Act say?


  all areas had to have a professional police force that was centrally controlled
• what was set up in 1869?


  the first national crime records.
• when was the regular detective branch at Scotland Yard with 16 officers established?


  1842
• what was set up in 1878?


  the Criminal Investigations Department
• what did the CID employ and how many were added in 1883?


  200 detectives, and 600 more were added
• when did they successfully use fingerprint evidence?

  1902