The first commissioners of the London Metropolitan Police, the founders of the French detective bureau and its successor, and the founders of the early private and public detective services of the nineteenth century, including the first woman detective in the United States and the inspector sent to the Whitechapel murders. A person belongs here when the cited source places the person among the founding generation of modern police and detective work.
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Wikipedia: Richard Mayne
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the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Wikipedia: Frederick Abberline
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was a British chief inspector for the London Metropolitan Police
Wikipedia: Allan Pinkerton
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Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819, July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot in 1861, preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Wikipedia: Charles Rowan
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Rowan did, however, insist that his men were drilled and laid down the highest standards of conduct.
Wikipedia: Kate Warne
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In 1856, at the age of 23, Warne walked into the Pinkerton Detective Agency in response to an advertisement.
Eugène-François Vidocq (Wikipedia)
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Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃swa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775-11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. He was the founder and first director of France's first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency.
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