The following pages are from a document prepared by the Home Office in 1983.
It was aimed at school children and gives a basic history of policing in Great Britain and some details of how the British Police is organised. Whilst the majority is still relevant, please bear in mind that when it talks about 'modern' policing, it refers to the 1980s rather than today, and technology has moved on.... You can either go straight to each page by selecting an item of interest from the Index below, or simply go through the whole document by using the Next Page/Previous Page links at the bottom of each page Preserving law and order -
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INDEXPART ONE - Preserving law and order from earliest times to the making of the modern police force
PART TWO - the development of the modern police from 1856 to the present day
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