Primary Sources

• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 1. The 'idea' of policing, edited by Francis Dodsworth
• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 2. Reforming the police in the nineteenth century, edited by Robert M. Morris
• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 3. Policing the poor, edited by Paul Lawrence
• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 4. Policing entertainment
• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 5. Policing the public order and politics
• Making of the Modern Police, Volume 6. The development of detective policing
• 'The Police and the Thieves', Quarterly Review, Jun (1856) - especially pp. 172-6
• Parliamentary Papers, 1852-53: First report from the Select Committee on Police; with the minutes of evidence- especially pp. 37-45 (evidence of Sir Robert Sheffield)
• Instructions for the Guidance of the Surrey Constabulary (1862)
• Report on the State, Discipline, and Organization of the Metropolitan Police - especially pp. 45-50
• Digitised Police Notebooks (part of Booth's Survey of London): Walk with Inspector Drew, 20 January 1898, Mile End Road, pp. 68-81

Key Reading

• Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England, chapter 9