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To: Karen Lawrence who started this subject8/20/2001 6:53:21 PM
From: Jay Bilotta  Read Replies (1) of 155
 
How did the term "Bobby" come to describe an English policeman?

Robert Peel (later to be knighted "Sir"), Home Secretary of England, created the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829 to combat the rampant lawlessness prevalent in London.

His recruits were known as "Bobbies."
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