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Law and order in 19th century London
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Law and order in 19th century London The police at this time were certainly not anywhere near as advanced in their ways of tackling crime as police are nowadays. The main reasons for this is that they did not yet have the knowledge to understand the criminal mind, and the closest they got was keeping photographs of criminals faces thinking that criminal types all had the same shaped head. The Metropolitan Police Force had two main areas of expertise; these were to patrol the streets to keep order and deter any crime and help with major disturbances such as riots. Their training fell short of being capable of solving crimes such as murders and did not have the same technology that is open to police today when solving crimes. Police were only allowed to use truncheons until the 1940's when revolvers were introduced to inspectors. The crime fighting techniques the force mostly used...
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