Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century. (15) The police was enforced to ensure minimal violence and crimes that was occurring, in order to make

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1. Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century. (15)

The police was enforced to ensure minimal violence and crimes that was occurring, in order to make London a much securer environment. Even though the police had a good knowledge of the local troubles and their local area, they were not capable in dealing with larger disturbances, for example: riots. To solve this scenario the army was called in. however due to their ‘heavy handed’ methods the community tremendously disliked them.

        In 1829 Robert Peel set up the metropolitan police force. The force tried to distance themselves from the army by wearing blue uniforms instead of the army’s red. This was because they had a bad public image however the metropolitan’s reputation was no better. This police force did not get very far as corruption and drunkenness became an issue among officers.

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        Then the CID was set up. This consisted of detectives dealing with crimes, who followed these instructions: ‘the body must not be moved, nor anything about it or in the room or place interfered with, and the public must be excluded.’ They found that this had many advantages as in 1884 John Toms was convicted of murder by police because they matched a torn piece of paper from his pistol in the wound of the victim. This was the beginning of forensic science.

   These points above prove that it was extremely difficult to police a rough area like ...

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Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century. (15) The police was enforced to ensure minimal violence and crimes that was occurring, in order to make
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