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Describe the Role of a Modern Police Service. This essay will explore the role and function of the modern police service within Great Britain. It will start by introducing the history of the police service, and try to determine its original goals and reasons for existence. This will then be compared to the service that is in existence today, and discuss how much more responsibility the police services have. Next this essay will take a look at the current make up of the police service, and how it has been adapted to suit the roles laid out in the previous discussion. A further exploration will discuss how the police have adopted to new tasks by introducing alternative policing strategies, yet further evolving based on evaluation of its past. Public perception of the police also affects how the future role of policing is also developed and this will be discussed briefly....

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