Metropolitan And Los Angeles Police Department
The history of the metropolitan police in London all began when the home Secretary, Sir Robert peel in the year 1822 organized a 4th committee in the House of Commons to deal with the state of police in the metro police at that time (Martin Daunton, 2000). The committee’s report showed that the police force at that time were not in capacity to face the increasing numbers of offenders and the offences in London (Elaine A Reynolds, 1998). This committee therefore recommended that Police office to be made and be given the mandate to control the policing activities outside the City of London. These recommendations are the mother of the origin of the “Metropolitan Police Act (10 GEO 4c.44)”, which was given a royal assent on the nineteenth of June of the year 1829 (Elaine A Reynolds, 1998).
The act which therefore formed in the year 1829 led to creation of a Metropolitan Police Office which was headed by two commissioners and a receiver who was appointed by the home Secretary (Elaine A Reynolds, 1998). This office become operational in September the same year and by May of the year 1830 it had a capacity of three thousands three hundred personnel. It slowly took in men from the year 1839 the Metropolitan Police office was converted into purely judicial police courts (Elaine A Reynolds, 1998). The Act also led to an enlargement of the boundaries of the Metropolitan Police District from an area of one twenty square miles to an area of around seven hundred square miles. In the same year of 1839 a private bill was established in the London Police as an independent force with mandate outside the one of the Metropolitan Police District (Martin Daunton, 2000). This was the n extended by the London Government Act of the year nineteen sixty four.
The Metropolitan Police was therefore the 1st ever police service to undergo extensive reforms in the 19th century, and even became a model for the international and regional police forces which come up later such as the County and Borough Police Act 1856 and the rural Constabulary Act 1839 (Martin Daunton, 2000). After its birth in the year 1829 metropolitan police has continued to expand its functions within London and at some instances it even takes on the functions which are almost similar to the ones of the national police force, for example protecting the royal family and giving advice to the local police forces. Its major developments in its functions includes; the formation of detective department in the year 1842 which was later reorganized in the year 1878 to become the criminal Investigation Department, coming up with a fingerprint classification system which become so successful in the year 1901, and bringing women on board as officers in the year 1919 (Martin Daunton, 2000). The force assumed various non-criminal duties in the 19th century, as a result of the statute or delegation from the Home Secretary
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