BACKGROUND STUDY

OF METROPOLITAN
POLICE FORCES BY
ROBERT PEEL

KASELYN MARTINEZ, MARIEL RAMIREZ, FRANCIS

NELSEN FREJOLES
Robert Peel, often referred to as Sir Robert Peel, was a
British statesman and politician who played a significant role
in the development of modern policing. He is best known for
establishing the Metropolitan Police Service in London in
1829, earning him the title of the "father of modern policing"
and the principles he laid out are known as the "Peelian
Principles."
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Early Life Political Career

01 Robert Peel‼️
was born on February 5, 02 Peel had a successful political career
1788, in Bury, Lancashire, England. and served as Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom twice

Metropolitan Police Act Peelian Principles

03 Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police 04 Peel outlined a set of principles for the
Act of 1829, which established the new police force, known as the Peelian
Metropolitan Police Force in London. Principles.
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Legacy
05 Peel's ideas and reforms in policing had
a lasting impact not only in the UK but
also in many other countries.
Historical Significance
06 The study of Robert Peel's contributions to
policing is important for understanding the
evolution of law enforcement and the
principles that underpin modern police
work.
In 1829, Sir Robert Peel established the
London Metropolitan Police Force. He became
known as the “Father of Modern Policing,” and
his commissioners established a list of
policing principles that remain as crucial and
urgent today as they were two centuries ago.
They contain three core ideas and nine
principles.
SIR ROBERT PEEL’S POLICING
PRINCIPLE
THREE CORE IDEAS

• The goal is preventing crime, not catching

criminals. If the police stop crime before it
happens, we
don’t have to punish citizens or suppress their
rights.

• The key to preventing crime is earning

public support.

• The police earn public support by

respecting community principles.
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2 3 4
1 To recognize always
To recognize always To recognize always
To prevent crime that the extent to
that the power of the that to secure and
and disorder, as an which the
police to fulfill their maintain the respect
alternative to their cooperation of the
functions and duties is and approval of the
repression by public can be
dependent on public public means also
military force and secured diminishes
approval of their the securing of the
severity of legal proportionately the
existence, actions and willing cooperation
punishment. necessity of the use
behavior, and on their of the public in the
of physical force
ability to secure and task of securing
and compulsion for
maintain public observance of laws.
achieving police
respect. objectives.
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9 POLICING PRINCIPLES
To seek and preserve public favor, not by 6
pandering to public opinion, but by
constantly demonstrating absolute impartial To use physical force only when the exercise of
service to law, in complete independence persuasion, advice and warning is found to be
of policy, and without regard to the justice insufficient to obtain public cooperation to an extent
or injustice of the substance of individual necessary to secure observance of law or to restore
laws, by ready offering of individual service order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical
and friendship to all members of the public force which is necessary on any particular occasion for
without regard to their wealth or social achieving a police objective.
standing, by ready exercise of courtesy
and friendly good humor, and by ready
offering of individual sacrifice in protecting
and preserving life.
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9 POLICING PRINCIPLES
To maintain at all times a
relationship with the public that gives
reality to the historic tradition that
the police are the public and that the
public are the police, the police
being only members of the public
who are paid to give full-time
attention to duties which are
incumbent on every citizen in the
interests of community welfare and
existence.
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To recognize always the need for
strict adherence to police-executive
functions, and to refrain from even
seeming to usurp the powers of the
judiciary of avenging individuals or
the State, and of authoritatively
judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
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To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the

absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of
police action in dealing with them.
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