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Policing: Context (Sources: Policing enquiries (The media (Illustrated…
Policing: Context
Sources: Policing enquiries
Official statistics
The National Archive
Internet
Police and court records
Freedom licences
(official release papers for prisoners)
valuable records of convictions and punishments
Old Bailey court records
Central Criminal Court in London
Memoirs and reports
James Bent and Richard Jervic
Recording crime
The media
Local and national newspaper accounts
Illustrated Police News
suggests an official publication
sensationalist 'penny dreadful' - very anti-police
The Police Review
Challenged negative views of local policemen
Evening Argus
Commissioner Charles Warren
Appointed by the home secretary, following a series of strikes and demonstrations against government policy
Intended as a warning to those who were seen as troublemaking opponents of the government
Contributed to the idea that the police in London were simply the government in uniform.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner (1886)
Highly criticised
The Criminal Investigation Department
Detective department added to the Metropolitan Police in 1842
tiny + ineffective
confusion over whether detectives were preventing or detecting crime
Organisation of the police force
Home secretary had little control over local police forces outside London
Manpower
Insufficient
Overpopulated