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Show SCOTLAND YARD . & For more than a century the police force of London , operating operatingfrom operatingfrom . from headqual headquaiteis headquarters tel s in m famed Scotland Yard , has held an envIable envIablerecord enviablerecord enviabirecord record for effIcIenc efficiency , although in m its eaily emly early years the organization organizationwas organi2atioiwas was far fiom flom from popular with the public . Owing- Owing Owingto - to the unsatisfactoiy unsatlsfactOlY unsatisfactory state of law observance at that thattIme thattime thatime tIme , Sir Su ' Robert Peel 2n m 1828 took steps toward the organizatiolof orgamzationof organizationof orgamzation organization of an effective police foice fOlce force for the British BntIsh metropolis . Its fIrst fIrstheadquarters firstheadquarters firsheadquarters headquarters at Scotland Yaid Ymd Yard was furnished furmshed with w1th w1thonly withonly only a table tableand tableand tabliand and two t\\-o t o ' \ - chans chairs , , but its facIlItiesere facilities ' were \-ere ere \ - rapidly expanded e\.panded e.panded e .panded panded ' \ . and the theforce theforce thforce ( force was soon leciuited lecIUlted recruited to about 3000 men . Feeling Feellng Feeiing that the new powers confeired confelred conferred upon the police con- con constituted constituted constitutcd - stituted an undue 1 lestnction estllctIon restriction of liberty , hooting hootng hoot ng crowds reviled revlled the thenew thenew thnew ( new force , calling its membeis membels members obnm obnoMous obnoxious lOuc ; names , ' including 'lncludmg lncludmg those thoseof thoseof thos thosof < of "Bobbies Bobbies " " and "Peelers Peelers " , " which have persisted to this day dayThese . These names , of course , weie wele were derived fiom flom from that of their sponsor sponsorIlobert , Itobert Robert Peel . . As an illustration of the effectiveness of the present force . , 1t it 1thas ithas i1has has been pointed out that m In a recent year only 15,662 15662 , CLmes cr.mes crmes CLmeswere cr.meswere ci-meswere ci meswere - . were leported reported in London , while 333,083 333083 , were noted in m the less lesspopulous lesspopulous lesspopulous populous city of New York . , . The efficiency of Scotland Yard de- de detectIves detectives de detectives - - tectives is proverbial provelblal , , and comparatively comparatlvely few London murderers murderersgo go unpunished . This probably probabb " accounts for the fact that while the yeally yearly yearlyhomicide yeallyhomIcIde yeailyhomicide homIcIde rate rater in London is only 1 in m 100,000 100000 , , in several cities of ofthe ofthe ofthe the United States it runs more than 50 times as high , , and aver aver- averages averages - ages more than 10 times as high in the country at large . |