![Fuller's London Pride on Twitter: "#OnThisDay in 1829, British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police. Later nicknamed 'bobbies' & 'peelers'. https://t.co/sTRCc2tSBu" / Twitter Fuller's London Pride on Twitter: "#OnThisDay in 1829, British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police. Later nicknamed 'bobbies' & 'peelers'. https://t.co/sTRCc2tSBu" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtiTvWiXEAAcmUb.jpg)
Fuller's London Pride on Twitter: "#OnThisDay in 1829, British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police. Later nicknamed 'bobbies' & 'peelers'. https://t.co/sTRCc2tSBu" / Twitter
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The village 'bobby'. London's reorganized police force went on duty in 1829. British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced the… | London police, Bicycle, Police
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, Ian A Biddell. - September 29th 1829: The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met. was inaugurated and was London's first regular police
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Political Theory Workshop: Lennie Feldman, "From Peeler to Bobbies: Charles Reith, Imperial Emergency, and the Myth of British Police Principles" Thursday, November 7th, 4:30pm - Political Science | The Graduate Center, CUNY
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