Sir Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel is probably the most influential name associated with modern day policing. In the year of 1829, he formed the first modern metropolitan police department. And the “Peelers,” or “Bobbies,” set precedent for what our police of today model themselves after. Upon Peel’s call for a metropolitan police department, he set up principles, which are called Peel’s Principles of Law Enforcement. These nine principles set up what he envisioned the metropolitan police …

…aside and not used against another person in demeaning and harmful way. The position and power a police officer is in should not be used to get even with others for some misfortune that happened in the past. Sir Robert Peel’s nine principles are key in today’s society. They provide the foundation of every police department’s beliefs; and help to achieve the goals that every modern day police department wants to achieve.