Robert Peel's Peace Preservation Force

When Robert Peel's bill passed in 1829 it created a unified centralized force of policeman, all gathered in London under his command. Their orders were to prevent crime, but they weren't very well received by some Londoners. One East ender said in disgust that his hatred for the Bobbies was because they were, and I quote, red hot Irishman just imported. They were strangers, they didn't know the city they brought their clubs down upon. There may have been some element of truth to that too, and even toward the end of the 1800s only one out of every six police in London had been born in this city. Here's Adam Wood once again.