Aigburth Police Force The Plan To Establish One In 1842

[ChrisGeorge]

The same system of "Watch, Scavengers and Lamps" must have existed in Aigburth prior to 1842?

Hi Daz



You are probably correct.

Of course before Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police force there were the Bow Street Runners that kept order in the city of London. That system of policing was established in 1749 by the novelist Henry Fielding. I imagine other jurisdictions around the British Isles had their own similar forms of early policing.

Chris