History GCSE

Metropolitan Police Force

What Metropolitan Police Force means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.

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Centralised, uniformed and professional police force created in 1829, aimed at preventing crime rather than just reacting to it.

Pearson Edexcel · Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 3 Case studies ● Pentonville prison in the mid nineteenth century: reasons for its construction; the strengths and weaknesses of the separate system in operation. (study guide)

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Option 10: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Britain - 3 Case studies ● Pentonville prison in the mid nineteenth century: reasons for its construction; the strengths and weaknesses of the separate system in operation. (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)

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