The Wikipedia biographical article on Patrick Colquhoun, covering his Thames River Police and its influence on the Metropolitan Police. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikipedia: Patrick Colquhoun
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Significance for modern policing section
Historians of policing credit Colquhoun's innovation as a critical development leading up to Robert Peel's 'new' police three decades later.
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