Category: Police

WHERE DID “COPPER” COME FROM? September, 2019

May 7, 2025

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T.G. Campbell

in Metropolitan Police, Police, research, research, Scotland Yard, true crime, victorian, writing

The 190th Anniversary of the Founding of the Metropolitan Police Force The 29th September 2019 will mark the 190th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel. It’s difficult for many to imagine a world in which there’s no police. Almost more difficult to imagine is a society so resistant to…
REVIEW: SCOTLAND YARD The Complete Series, May 2019

May 7, 2025

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by

T.G. Campbell

in Metropolitan Police, Police, Review, Scotland Yard, Television, true crime

Nowadays we’re accustomed to seeing (at least) 30 minutes of adverts (aka commercials) for products and other movies when we go to the cinema. In the early to mid-twentieth century though cinema goers would be treated to a “B feature” in addition to the top billed film. They may have also seen a news reel…