Today’s Coppers Would Not Measure Up to Sir Robert Peel’s Policing Principles

[The Expose]: n 1829, Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police Force. He became known as the “father of modern policing,” and his commissioners established a list of policing principles that remain as crucial and urgent today as they were two centuries ago.

In March 2020 Lord Sumption warned: “This is what a police state is like. It’s a state in which the government can issue orders or express preferences with no legal authority and the police will enforce ministers’ wishes.” He accused officers of exceeding their powers in trying to stop people from taking exercise in open country “simply because ministers have said that they would prefer us not to.” And lawyers echoed his warning.

Sir Robert Peel’s Policing Principles contain three core ideas and nine principles....<<<Read More>>>...