Police forces and detective agencies that began modern policing, including the Bow Street Runners, the Pinkerton agency, the French national security police that grew from the Brigade de Surete and the London Metropolitan Police. An institution belongs here when the cited source places it among the founding police bodies. Entries placed here are Bow Street Runners, Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Surete Nationale and Metropolitan Police Service.
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Metropolitan Police (Wikipedia)
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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, Met Police, or the "Met", is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.
Wikipedia: Bow Street Runners
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The Bow Street Runners were the law enforcement officers of the Bow Street Magistrates' Court in the City of Westminster.
Wikipedia: Pinkerton (Detective Agency)
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Pinkerton is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
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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