Law and Order in the First Part of the Nineteenth Century :: Papers

Law and Order in the First Part of the ordinal Century In the first part of the nineteenth century criminal offence was one of the biggest social problems. Crime was made worse by far-flung poverty, many people wanted proper law enforcement. May crimes were penal by death, so the criminals adopted the phase better to be hung for a sheep than a lamb. When Sir Robert Peel became Home Secretary in 1825, he made a properly organised natural law system his propriety. Up to now towns had only their caped night watchmen, with warning bells and rattles. Peels major(ip) concern was preventing crime rather than punishing it. For this reason, in 1829 he open up the first regular law force. Large towns such as capital of the United Kingdom were often particularly lawless, and authorities often used troops to salvage the peace, which was a much-hated practice. In 1829 Peel established a regular police force in capital of the United Kingdom and the suburbs. At fi rst thither were ccc Bobbies recruited and controlled by the Home Office. Their presence soon forced many criminals of the capital. ultimately in 1856 every county and borough had to maintain a police force. The metropolitan police force had many different duties. The man on the beat was there to stop disorderly behaviour. So this meant the Metropolitan Police Force were to take on with beggars, drunkenness, vagrants and prostitutes. In the second half of the nineteenth centuary Londons streets became much orderly, but as a consequence of this the number of burglaries went up. Another of the Metropolitan Police Forces duties was to deal with major disturbances. Police constables received very comminuted training in the late nineteenth century and often learnt their dole out on the job. Police constables worked seven days a hebdomad and up to fourteen hours a day. In London in the 1870s and 1880s, a beat during daytime was seven and a half miles l anguish whilst at night it was two miles. Pick pocketing was rife in London in the late nineteenth century. Pickpockets were generally around the age of 6-10 long time old and had