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Comparative Policing System

This document defines terms related to comparative policing systems around the world. It discusses the effects of globalization on law enforcement and describes different types of policing systems that have emerged over time, including common law systems, civil law systems, socialist systems, and Islamic systems. It also outlines the historical development of policing in England from early systems like the Tun Policing System to the establishment of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829.

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Comparative Policing System

This document defines terms related to comparative policing systems around the world. It discusses the effects of globalization on law enforcement and describes different types of policing systems that have emerged over time, including common law systems, civil law systems, socialist systems, and Islamic systems. It also outlines the historical development of policing in England from early systems like the Tun Policing System to the establishment of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829.

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DALISAY, ARVY B. Aug.

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COMPARATIVE POLICING SYSTEM


(Definition of Terms)

1. Police - The governmental department charged with the regulation and control of the
affairs of a community, now chiefly the department established to maintain order,
enforce the law, and prevent and detect crime.
2. COMPARATIVE - an estimate of relative likeness or unlikeness of two objects or event
3. GLOBALIZATION - package of transnational flow of people, production, investment,
information, ideas and authority.
4. EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION to Law Enforcement - law enforcers are expected to be
the protector of the people
5. Common Law Systems - usually exists in English speaking countries of the world
6. Civil Law Systems - distinguished by strong inquisitorial system where less right is
granted to the accused and the written law is taken as gospel and subject to little
interpretation
7. Socialist System - distinguished by procedures designed to rehabilitate the offender.
8. Islamic System - based more on the concept of natural justice or customary law or tribal
traditions
9. Continental - is the theory of police service which maintains that police officers are
servants of higher authorities.
10. Home Rule - the theory of police service which states that police officers are servants of
the community or the people.
11. Old police service - states that the yardstick of police proficiency relies on the number of
arrest made.
12. Modern police service - states that the yardstick of police proficiency relies on the
absence of crime.
13. Deviance Control - is the modern police function which primarily involves the mission to
reinforce community values and laws. This was adopted by Germany, China and Japan.
14. Civil order control - is not organizationally separated from deviance control but is
performed by regular street police in the country of England and United States.
15. Praetorian guards - military bodies who serve as guardians of peace in ancient Rome in
which the idea of policing said to have originated
16. Officer de la Paix - a French term which claimed to be the origin of the term Police
Officer
17. . Tun Policing System - A system of policing emerged during the Anglo-Saxon period
whereby all male residents were required to guard the town (tun) to preserve peace and
protect the lives and properties of the people.
18. Tithingman - Ten families in a town (tun) equaled a tithing.
19. Hue and Cry - A village law started in Britain which provided methods of apprehending a
criminal by an act of the complainant to shout to call all male residents to assemble and
arrest the suspect.
20. Trial by Ordeal - A judicial practice where in the guilt or innocence of the accused is
determined by subjecting him to an unpleasant, usually dangerous, experience.
21. Dei Indicum - which means “a miraculous decision.”
22. Norman Period of Policing System - This system of policing existed during the time of
Norman William The Conqueror (King of France). When he invaded and conquered
England, a military regime of conquers and dictators began and changed the concept of
crime being committed against the state.
23. Shire-Rieve - was a policing system during the Norman Period when England was
divided into fifty-five (55) military areas, each headed by a ruler called the Rieve (head-
man or lieutenant of the army).
24. Frankpledge System - A system of policing whereby a group of ten neighboring male
residents over twelve years of age were required to guard the town to preserve peace
and protect the lives and properties of the people
25. Westminster Period of Policing System - It is called by this name because the laws
governing policing came out of the capital of England, which at the time was
Westminster.
26. Statute of Westminster of 1285 - a collection of regulations aimed at keeping the peace.
27. Justice of the Peace (About 1361) - Three or four men who were learned in the law of
the land were given authority to pursue, arrest, chastise and imprisonment violators of
law.
28. Star Chamber Court (1487) - A special court designed to try offenders against the state.
The room set-up is formed in a shape of a star and judges were given great powers such
as the power to force testimony from a defendant leading to a great abuse of power or
brutality on the part of the judges.
29. Keepers of the Peace - A proclamation issued by King Richard of England sometime in
1195 that required the appointment of knights to keep the King’s peace by standing as
guards on bridges and gates while checking the people entering and leaving the cities
and towns.
30. Henry Fielding - appointed as Magistrate in 1748, introduced the first detective force,
known as the Bow Street Runners
31. Bow Runners - a group of men organized by Henry Fielding and named by his brother
John Fielding task to catch thieves and robbers
32. 1798 - Marine Police Force was established, salaried constables were being paid by
local magistrates.
33. Sir Robert Peel - appointed as Home Secretary in 1822
34. METROPOLITAN POLICE - organized in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel (Metropolitan Police
Act of 1829)
35. TOTAL POLICING - motto of London Metropolitan Police
36. 1833 - Coldbath Fields Riot (Grays Inn Road). A major crowd disturbance dealt with by
the Metropolitan Police with controversial use of force.
37. 1836 - The Metropolitan Police absorb the Bow Street Horse Patrol into its control.
38. 1838 - incorporates Marine Police and Bow Street Runners into the Metropolitan Police
and the disbandment of the Bow Street Office and other Offices. These were all agreed
and put into effect.
39. Commissioner - highest rank in the Metropolitan Police
40. Police Constable - lowest rank
41. Municipal Police - includes village, township, city and country police departments, sheriff
departments
42. Country Sheriff - in charged with the operation of county jail, civil function such as
service of eviction notices and other court orders and police responsibility.
43. City Police - most common local police organization. It has jurisdiction in matters that
occur in an incorporated municipality.
44. State Police - includes special investigative agencies that concentrate on statewide law
enforcement
45. Federal Police - agencies operated by federal government at the national level
46. New York City it is where the first full time police force was organized in the United
States
47. New York Police Department - the largest police force in the United States
48. Texas Ranger - police force originally created in response to colonization
49. Boston Police Department - first local modern police department established in the
United States
50. Pennsylvania State Police - the first state police agency established

Reference:
- Module in LEAORG1 AND LEACOM6

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