To keep the head cool was therefore a desideratum in the policeman’s morale, and it is satisfactory to think, as the following paragraph now in circulation will show, that it has happily been attained.

North Eastern Railway Police trial the use of police dogs for the first time: PD Jim, with his handler Sgt Allinson. Victorian police looked much unlike officers today, although there are definite similarities between the two. For example, modern-day police wear hats, as did those in the Victorian times, although Victorian police wore long, solid hats that served both to protect their heads and act as impromptu stepping stools when needed. It wasn’t a legal requirement for counties across England to have a police force, and so entrenched was the public’s distaste for them that it wasn’t until the Police Act of 1856 that saw every county in England forced to set up a police force. A range of other generous leave entitlements; including maternity and paternity leave, study leave and defence force leave. All 8 remaining Scottish territorial polices forces are amalgamated into a single force: Police Scotland.

AN ALTERATION

Public Service Medal [71] – The Public Service Medal (PSM) is awarded for outstanding public service and is awarded on Australia Day and King's Birthday each year; London in the early 1800s had a population of nearly a million and a half people but was policed by only 450 constables and 4,500 night watchmen. The idea of professional policing was taken up by Sir Robert Peel when he became Home Secretary in 1822. Terrill, Richard J. (2015). World Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey (reviseded.). Routledge. pp.30–53. ISBN 978-1317228820.

Policemen’s boots are of two sizes only, the too small and the too large. The latter class are by far the most numerous; so that it is easy to judge a policeman by his foot, which seems twice as big as anybody else’s. These boots, or rather boats, presumably consist of leather; but they look as clumsy, awkward and inflexible, as if they were made of cast-iron….”The high turnover of the first policemen could well have been down to the fact their lives were so tightly controlled. The public thought the police were spying on them, so to try and combat this, policemen were forced to wear their uniforms both on and off duty so people could identify them. Various experiments were tried in the treatment of prisoners. During the 1830s and 1840s attempts were made to enforce regimes of silence and/or isolation. If the problem was a moral one then, leaving offenders alone with their thoughts and their bibles, requiring them to work (thus learning of work's virtues), and providing them with occasional visits by the chaplain, was perceived as the way to their reformation. If, as has been truly said, there is “wisdom in the wig,” there can be no doubt but much virtue may lie under the hat, when the hat itself is made the medium by which it is communicated. AN ALTERATION In the 19th and early 20th centuries most forces required that recruits be at least 5feet 10inches (178cm) in height. Nottingham City Police had a minimum height requirement of 6 feet. By 1960 many forces had reduced this to 5feet 8inches (173cm), and 5feet 4inches (163cm) for women. Many senior officers argued that height was a vital requirement for a uniformed constable. [24] Some forces retained the height standard at 5feet 10inches (178cm) or 5feet 9inches (175cm) until the early 1990s. In May 1990, the minimum height requirement was dropped by the Metropolitan Police, and other police forces had followed suit by September 1990. No British force now requires its recruits to be of any minimum height. Edinburgh Town Guard gained notoriety when its Captain Porteous became the trigger for the Porteous Riots.