law enforcement

• key changes in law enforcement 1700-1900:

  -proffessionalisation

  -bow street runners

  -police force developments

  -Start of CID
• professionalisation 1700-1900

  -parish constables and watchmen continued

  -they began to get paid

  -1892 metropolitan police act established 1st professional police force

  -blue uniforms

  -1856 police act stated all areas had to have a centrally controlled police force (national uniformity)

  -1869 National crime records

  -telegraph communications
• CID (criminal investigations department)

  -1842 detective branch with 16 officers

  -1878 CID set up

  -employed 200 detectives

  -800 by 1883

  -1902 fingerprint evidence
• how do the bow street runners show professionalism?

  -established London 1748

  -made by Henry Fielding Cheif Magistrate

  -officially paid for by government by 1785

  -first modern detective force

  -regular foot and horse patrols

  -sharing info with other law enforcers