Law Enforcement

• Continuity


  Comunity to join Hue and Cry

  No national Police Force
• What were Town Constables?

  Paid Job

  Power to arrest suspects and take them to the JP

  In charge of watchmen
• When was the Vagrancy Act?

  1547
• What was the vagrancy act?

  Person had to find work in 3 days or be branded and sold as a slave for 2 years
• When was the Poor relief Act?

  1597
• What was the Poor Relief Act?

  Harsh punishments like whipping

  Used to deter vagrancy
• When was the Poor Laws?

  1601
• What was the Poor Laws?

  Deserved poor - Not fit to work

  Given Poor relief payments

  Undeserving Poor - Those fit to work

  Punished Branded
• What was the population of England in 1500

  2.5 million
• What was the population in 1700

  5.5 million
• Who where Night Watchmen?

  Unpaid Volunteers

  Patrol areas from 10 am to Dawn

  Overseen by Town Constable

  Rang bell to alert people

  Carried lamp their way
• What happened to the role of the church in Law Enforcement in Early Modern period?

  Decreased
• Who were Theif Takers?

  Paid for Reward for catching a criminal

  Some were criminals and informed on rival criminals

  Jonathan Wild example led a gang of theives