CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Royal Irish Constabulary, Metropolitan Police Service, Steam Engine
17 Nov 2013
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Sir robert peel and 2 traditions of policing: during industrialization: rural --> urban. Steam engine, machinery evolves: wanted to bring in police in 1812. Govt declined, because policing was seen as repressive: policing before this: gendarmerie. Instead, goes to ireland and establishes the royal irish constabulary (1812) Members of the irc came to canada during the irish famine and started policing there. Policed different areas than those that they are from (not attached to the community) You live where you work: when back in london, creates the london metropolitan police in 1829. Civilian emphasis (not in military uniform) military emphasis (in military uniform) Civilian members (fingerprint analysis, analysis of biker gangs, collecting firearms, forensics, etc. ) Confederation and nation building: macdonald sent out butler out west to detail how we can police the west. 1873: nwmp: policed west of ontario, wore red (because the british wore red, and to ally themselves with aboriginals, armed, barracked.
