The Bow Street Runners were the law enforcement officers of the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in the City of Westminster. They have been called London's...
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vegetables. Bow Street has a strong connection with the law; the Bow Street Runners, an early voluntary police force, was established here by Henry Fielding...
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Bow Street Magistrates' Court (formerly Bow Street Police Court) and Police Station each became one of the most famous magistrates' courts and police stations...
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liberties the English were proud of was unacceptable for many. The Bow Street Runners reached quickly the public awareness and approval thanks to the success...
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the Bow Street Runners decided to apprehend the conspirators themselves.[citation needed] In the resulting brawl, Thistlewood killed Bow Street Runner Richard...
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Lisa Kleypas (section Bow-Street Runners series)
Lisa Kleypas (born November 5, 1964) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985...
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novel. The protagonist Tom Richmond, a picaresque figure, joins the Bow Street Runners after a misspent youth. It forms a bridge been early eighteenth century...
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City of Vice (section Bow Street Runner – the game)
the men who created the modern police force in Britain through the Bow Street Runners. The series was written by Clive Bradley and Peter Harness, whose...
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related to Sean Russell. Sean Russell website, includes fantasy and "Bow Street Runner" novels S. Thomas Russell website, includes HMS Themis novels Sean...
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a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow Street Runners. The Bow Street Runners are considered to have been Britain's first dedicated...
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United Kingdom, using his authority as a magistrate to found the Bow Street Runners, London's first professional police force. Henry Fielding was born...
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1821. Like the Bow Street Foot Patrols, they were merged into the Metropolitan Police by the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. Bow Street Runners Speed, P. F...
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London Police Service, the police force for London, Ontario, Canada Bow Street Runners (1749-1839), called London's first professional police force Marine...
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with the Bow Street Runners. This consisted of a group of seven men who investigated a robbery gone wrong. They got their name from the Bow Street magistrate’s...
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government control following the 1749 establishment of the London Bow Street Runners, the first formal police force in Britain. In 1800, Napoleon reorganized...
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growing lawlessness. In London, the existing law enforcement, the Bow Street Runners, struggled to contain the crime on their own, and as a result, private...
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policing crime after it was committed. Despite the introduction of the Bow Street Runners and other paid professionals, private citizens were still overwhelmingly...
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justice in London. They formed the first professional police force, the Bow Street Runners. Through the regular circulation of a police gazette containing descriptions...
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Roman Catholic Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Bow Street Runners and soldiers were called out and made thirteen arrests, although most...
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p. 140. Beattie, J. M. (2012). The First English Detectives. The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840. Oxford University Press....
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all crime-fighting organizations in the world, although London's Bow Street Runners, founded 1749, served a similar purpose at times. Founded in 1812...
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into the Metropolitan Police such as the Thames River Police and the Bow Street Runners. Since January 2012, the Mayor of London is responsible for the governance...
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Bow Street Runners, under the command of the bellowing Sir Roger Daley, and seconded by Captain Desmond Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp. The Runners are...
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prevalent, leading to the development of early police forces such as the Bow Street Runners and the Thames River Police. Capital and corporal punishment such...
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Salmon Lane, Limehouse at 5pm Stafford Road, Bow at 6pm Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green at 6pm Aske Street, Hoxton at 6:30pm In response, their opponents...
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soon known as the Bow Street Runners. Soon after the Metropolitan Police was established in 1829, a station house was sited in Bow Street, with the current...
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obstacles such as kerbs. This was made even worse at night since each back street lamp was fitted with an incandescent light bulb, which gave no penetrating...
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(February 2010). A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-317-43672-0. Valerie Knowles...
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introduced the first detective force, known as the Bow Street Runners, in 1753. Fielding's house at 4 Bow Street had been established as a courtroom by the previous...
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1839. In 1839, the two small forces which pre-dated the Met – the Bow Street Runners and the Marine Police Force – were absorbed into it once and for all...
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