They used to call them "slave catchers"
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Yeah, and in Britain we first used the police as a force to occupy Ireland, it's all rotten.
Not even close to being true. Policing in Britain pre-dates 1066, while the first statutory police organisation dates from 1611 in Edinburgh. The first full-time police force were the Bow Street Runners in 1749.
Likely the Romans were the first recorded people policing Briton.
I was referring specifically the Peace Preservation act and the founding of the Irish Constabulary both the result of Robert Peel and which he would use as the templaye for the met in 1829, the Irish constabulary is literally the oldest police constabulary in the UK.
I might not be entirely correct, but a little rude to suggest that I was "Not even close to being true."
It was not by any means the oldest constabulary. As I mentioned, the constabulary in Edinburgh pre-dates the RIC by more than 200 years. The Thames River Police and City of Glasgow Police were both formed in 1800.
It would be odd for the RIC to form the prototype for the Met seeing as it was formed 8 years after it. Before the RIC, over 180 police forces had been formed in England and Wales, chiefly under the # Municipal Corporations Act 1835