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History of Law Enforcement

History of Law Enforcement. The Egyptians. Ancient Greece. Kin Police Peisistratus and his body of guards . Ancient Rome. Legions and Tributes The Praetorian Guard. Ancient Rome: Cohorts. The Praetorian Guard consisted of 9 groups of 1000 soldiers, called cohorts. France.

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History of Law Enforcement

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  1. History of Law Enforcement

  2. The Egyptians

  3. Ancient Greece • Kin Police • Peisistratus and his body of guards

  4. Ancient Rome Legions and Tributes The Praetorian Guard

  5. Ancient Rome: Cohorts The Praetorian Guard consisted of 9 groups of 1000 soldiers, called cohorts

  6. France Officers de paix Blue uniforms

  7. Pledge System Help Help! Hue and Cry Form a posse (comitatus)

  8. Tithings and Hundreds • Each village was grouped into a collective of ten families. These were called tithings. • Within a geographical area, ten tithings were called hundreds. Several hundreds were called shires.

  9. The Horse Master Comes stabuli Defended or Raided

  10. Shire Reeves • King William separated law enforcement from the judiciary system by creating “vice comes”, or judges, to hear cases. These judges traveled to the 140 shires that were created. • A person was appointed to collect taxes. These “Shire reeves”, later called Sheriffs, collected taxes, seized property and squashed political dissent.

  11. Leges Henrici

  12. Magna Charta • Henry II enacted legislation that formed twelve man juries • Before, trial was by ordeal • When King John took the throne in 1199, he quickly made enemies of both the noblemen and the common people. • Eventually, King John signed the Magna Charta under duress.

  13. Magna Charta • The Magna Charta, sometimes spelled Magna Carta, is considered one of the most important doctrines in history. Many of the liberties found in the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights can be traced to the Magna Charta. • It became the symbol of supremacy of the Constitution over the king • “No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disposed or outlawed or banished or in any way destroyed except by legal judgment of his peers or the laws of the land”

  14. Edict of Westminster

  15. 1500s • Around 1500, the wool industry forced the poor into the cities because land was converted into sheep pastures. • Poverty, joblessness and overcrowding resulted a rise in crime. • Merchants began to hire their own private police.

  16. WatchandWard

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