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Description: | Up to 1 in 20 of the inhabitants 18th-century London may have been a criminal. Following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 thousands of former troops with no jobs returned to England, which swelled the crime rate, all of which prompted Home Secretary Robert Peel to devise the world's first full-time police force in the 1820s. | Subjects: | Crime And Punishment Transport (Road) Surgery Police Station Health And Welfare Civic | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | Skingle, B | Identifier: | http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.u... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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