KQ3 - Enforcing Law and Order

• In what year did Charles II introduce an act which created a force of paid watchmen to patrol the streets of London?

  1663
• What was the nickname given to the first paid watchmen in 1663?

  Charlies
• Who were the two most powerful thief takers in London in the early 1700s?

  Charles Hitchen

  Jonathan Wild
• In what year did Charles Hitchen get arrested and die in prison?

  1727
• What was the nickname of Jonathan Wild?

  Thief Taker General
• In what year was Jonathan Wild arrested and hanged at Tyburn?

  1725
• How many revolts were there in Britain in the first half of the 1700s?

  Over 500
• How many policemen were there in England and Wales by the end of the 1700s?

  46,800
• How many police forces were there in England and Wales by the end of the 1700s?

  243
• How many police forces were there in England and Wales in 1900 and 2000?

  1900: Almost 200

  2000: 43
• When was the National Police Training College established?

  1947
• In what year were the first women police constables appointed?

  1919
• In what year did women no longer have to resign from the police force after getting married?

  1946
• In what year were women permitted to become detectives?

  1973
• When was the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme set up?

  1982
• When were PCSOs introduced?

  2002
• When was the National Automatic Fingerprint Identification System introduced?

  1995
• When was the DNA National Database set up?

  1995
• Who was the first female chief constable?

  Pauline Clare