Police Commissioner William J. Bratton Feb. 7 reached across an ocean and back 185 years to outline the future of the NYPD as an organization that works together with the public to get the law enforced.
On every chair at the Citizens Crime Commission breakfast Mr. Bratton addressed was a copy of the Nine Principles of Policing developed by Robert Peel, whom he called the father of modern policing. Mr. Peel was a nineteenth-century British Prime Minister who as Home Secretary in 1829 founded the Metropolitan Police Department, which covers most of London and is known as Scotland Yard.
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