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[–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It was not by any means the oldest constabulary. As I mentioned, the constabulary in Edinburgh pre-dates the RIC by more than 200 years. The Thames River Police and City of Glasgow Police were both formed in 1800.

It would be odd for the RIC to form the prototype for the Met seeing as it was formed 8 years after it. Before the RIC, over 180 police forces had been formed in England and Wales, chiefly under the # Municipal Corporations Act 1835

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