THE POLICE
May 04, 2021
3 minutes
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Although France’s Gendarmerie can trace its history back to the Middle Ages, in Britain modern policing really began in 1749, when London magistrate and author Henry Fielding employed six men from his office at 4 Bow Street in Covent Garden, Westminster. The Bow Street Runners, as they became known, would be dispatched from Fielding’s office, not to patrol streets as such but to serve writs or arrest offenders, sometimes travelling long distances
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