? starter activity

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? starter activity
Why did Victorian criminals use slang? Watch this
clip to explain why. ?Note down 5 examples of
criminal slang
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Who caught the Victorian villains?
? Key words truncheon magistrate beat
? Learning objectives

• TBAT explain reasons why police were set up
• To assess public reactions to them

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? Your task

• Readp.84-5 (top of page) of Wilkes and note down
  under the subheading Origins of the police Bow
  Street Runners and note down key successes of
  this organisation
• ?Why do you think the Runners didnt continue as
  an organisation? What were the challenges they
  faced?

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Origins - Bow Street Runners

• Reasonably well equipped handcuffs, pistol,
  stick uniforms
• Organised by a magistrate familiar with
  criminals in the area
• Expanded due to demand Henry Fielding set up
  horse patrol by 1792, 7 areas of London had
  police offices

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? Your task

• Read the remainder of p.85 and note down the
  strengths of Sir Robert Peels new force under
  the subheading, Metropolitan Police Force
• ?Why did some dislike the new police?

Victorian Bobbies
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Metropolitan Police Force

• Increased numbers 3000
• Better quality ex-servicemen under 35 healthy
  literate
• Better equipped blue uniform, truncheon, rattle,
  top hat (lined with metal)
• Salaried paid 5d a day
• Strict discipline sacked for drunkenness
• Popular by 1856 every town had a police force
• Crime fell

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Problems with Met

• Invasion of privacy
• Waste of money
• Nicknames, e.g. Peels Bloody Gang Blue
  Devils

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Another name for the early police force was Raw
Lobsters email your teacher if you think you
know why for an extra fruition!
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? Your task

• Study the sources on p.86-7. Under the subheading
  Positive views choose two sources, describe
  them and explain why you think they describe the
  police in a positive way and under Negative
  views do the same for the opposite side of the
  argument
• Which source do you think is most useful in
  understanding popular attitudes to the police?

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? Extension task

• Research the life of Sir Robert Peel and produce
  a fact file on his childhood, his main
  achievements and why he should be remembered today

Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850
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? Plenary

• Label a member of your table with as many items
  as you can remember for a Victorian Bobby.
• Explain how your labelled student was different
  from a Bow Street Runner
• Explain the successes failures of the first
  Bobbies