CRM 2305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Territorial Police Force, Frankpledge, North-West Mounted Police
2 Oct 2018
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Chapter 2: the origins and evolution of police work. The origins of policing: prior to the emergence of centralized states with codified laws, order within and among groups was maintained through systems of self-policing. Personal, group, or tribal retaliation was applied against those whose behaviour contravened established folkways and customs. (p. 25) In these rural, agrarian societies, which were primarily concerned with day-to-day survival, there were no individuals or organizations charged with the task of enforcing law. (p. 25) Justice of the peace act (1361): centralized peacekeeping duties under justices of the peace. (p. 27: sir robert peel: founded the first organized police service. (p. 28, metropolitan police act (1829): established a full-time, unarmed police force in. The evolution of police work in canada: early municipal police: Canada, along with newfoundland. (p. 36-37: early federal policing: the origins and expansion of the rcmp, the north-west mounted police was founded in 1873. (p. 37)
