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• Police -- Early works to 1800
• England -- Early works to 1800

• By the mayor. To the aldermen of the ward of [blank] Whereas oftentimes heretofore, especially towards winter the evenings growing dark, many loose and vagrant persons have been found to wander about the streets and lanes to lurk in corners within this city ... ([London : s.n., 1654]), by City of London (England). Lord Mayor and Thomas Vyner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ad deliberationem gaolæ Domini Regis de Newgate tentam pro civitate London, apud Iustice-Hall in le Old Baily, in parochia Sancti Sepulchuri in warda de Faringdon extra London, die Mercurii, scilicet decimo sexto de Aprilis, anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli, ... or, the better ordering, establishment and service of the watches, to be from henceforth duely observed and kept within the city of London and Liberties thereof, ... ([London] : Printed by Richard Cotes, Printer to the Honourable City of London, [1645]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Failure of Britain's Police: London and New York Compared (c2003), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and David Robinson, contrib. by George L. Kelling (PDF at Civitas)
• Racist Murder and Pressure-Group Politics (c2000), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and Ahmed Al-Shahi (PDF at Civitas)
• Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office: With an Account of the Magistrates, "Runners", and Police, and a Selection of the Most Interesting Cases (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1888), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scotland Yard: The Methods and Organisation of the Metropolitan Police (London: P. Marshall and Co., c1916), by George Dilnot (Gutenberg text)
• Report of the Commissioner of Police of the metropolis for the year. (H.M.S.O., in the 20th century), by London (England). Commissioner of Police (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis; explaining the various crimes and misdemeanors which at the present are felt as a pressure upon the community; and suggesting remedies for their prevention. (Printed by H. Fry, for C. Dilly, 1796), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Royal Commission upon the Duties of the Metropolitan Police, together with appendices. (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Wyman, 1908), by Great Britain. Royal Commission upon the Duties of the Metropolitan Police and Alfred Littelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years of Scotland yard; the record of a lifetime's service in the Criminal investigation department (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1931), by Frederick Porter Wensley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis (Printed by H. Fry, for C. Dilly, 1796), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis : containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are at present injured and endangered and suggesting remedies for their prevention (J. Mawman, 1800), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the commerce and police of the river Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London ... With an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations exercising jurisdiction on the river ... (Printed for J. Mawman, 1800), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• From constable to commissioner; the story of sixty years, most of them misspent (Chatto & Windus, 1910), by Henry Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police and crimes of the metropolis. Also an account of the courts of justice and prisons of London; and an inquiry into the causes of the increse in crime; the tendency of the debtor laws; and into the present state of the licensed victuallers' trade: with suggestions for the improvement of the protective institutions of the metropolis, and the prevention of offenses. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1829), by John Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Scotland yard (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by George Dilnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Committee on the state of the police of the metropolis: with the minutes of evidence ... and an appendix, containing abstracts of the several acts now in force for regulating public houses, also, the Proceedings of the Common Council of the city of London for clearing the streets of vagrants, prostitutes, idle and disorderly persons. (Printed by and for W. & C. Clement, 1816), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis and City of London (England). Court of Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis : containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered : and suggesting remedies for their prevention (J. Mawman, 1805), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of evidence taken before a Select committee to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis : with notes, observations, and pref. by a magistrate of the county of Middlesex. (Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1816), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. (J. Mawman; [etc., etc.], 1806), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crimes of the new police, being a faithful record of the nefarious practices, petty tyranny and unwarrantable conduct of the Raw Lobsters, alias Peel's Blue Devils, established for the purpose of subverting the liberty of Englishmen. (W. Chubb, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the commerce and police of the River Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London; and suggesting means for preventing the depredations thereon, by a legislative system of river police. With an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations exercising jurisdiction on the river; and a general view of the penal and remedial statutes connected with the subject (J. Mawman, 1800), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on Metropolis Police Offices; with the minutes of evidence; appendix and index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 29 June, 1837. (H.M. Stationery Office?, 1837), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Police of the Metropolis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committe on the Police of the Metropolis. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 11 July 1828. ([London?, 1828), by Great Britain. Police of the Metropolis Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis; with the Minutes of evidence; appendix and index. ([London?, 1834), by Great Britain. Police of the Metropolis Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on Metropolis Police Offices : with the minutes of evidence, appendix and index (H.M. Stationery Office?, 1838), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Police of the Metropolis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tocsin; or a review of the London police establishments, with hints for their improvement and for the prevention of calamitous fires &c. (The Author, 1828), by Thos. B. W. Dudley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. (Printed by H. Fry, for C. Dilly, 1797), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis : containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: suggesting remedies for the prevention. (Bye & Law for J. Mawson, 1806), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. (London, 1797), by Patrick Colquhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The metropolitan police guide : being a compendium of the law affecting the metropolitan police (Printed by H.M. Stationery Off. for the receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, 1922), by W. F. A. Archibald, J. A. Johnston, James Roberts, and John Herbert Stobart Greenhalgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations on the present state of the police of the metropolis. (J. Murray, 1921), by George B. Mainwaring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report from the Committee on the state of the police of the metropolis: with the minutes of evidence. (C. Clement, 1817), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis and London (England). Court of Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The policeman who prigged the mutton. (Paul, printer 18, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, 1845), by Charles Paul and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Days of my years (Longmans, Green ;, 1914), by Melville L. Macnaghten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London special constabulary, 1914-1919. (Everett & Co., 1920), by J. E. Muddock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Known to the Police, by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention, by Patrick Colquhoun (Gutenberg ebook)

• Crime and police (Wm. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1853), by James W. Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man in the Queue (c1929), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Clue of the Twisted Candle, by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and audio)

• Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), by Wilbur R. Miller (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The policeman who prigged the mutton. (Paul, printer 18, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, 1845), by Charles Paul and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The story of Scotland yard (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by George Dilnot (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Black list of the names or reputed names of seven hundred fifty two lewd and scandalous persons who by the endeavours of a society set up for the promoting a reformation of manners in the city of London and suburbs thereof, have been legally prosecuted and convicted, as keepers of houses of bawdry and disorder, or as whores, night-walkers &c. ... : published for the satisfaction of such as are contributers towards the necessary charges of this undertaking and for the encouraging others to give further assistance for the more effectual carrying on so great and so hopeful a design. (London printed : [s.n.], MDCXCVIII [1698]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Johann Heinrich Gottlobs von Justi ... Grudsätze der Policeywissenschaft : in einem vernünftigen, auf den Endqweck der Policey gegründeten, Zusammenhange und zum Gebrauch Academischer Vorlesungen abgefasset. (Im Verlag der Wittwe Vandenhoek, 1782), by Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi and Johann Beckmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proclamations. 1565-03-21 (Imprinted at London : In Powles Churchyard, by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie [i.e. B. Norton and J. Bill], [ca. 1618]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Conductor generalis (Printed and sold by James Parker ;, 1764), by William Blackstone, Richard Burn, and James Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jurisprudence. (Chez Panckoucke, libraire, hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins ;, 1782), by J. Peuchet and M. Lerasle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité de la police : ou l'on trouvera l'histoire de son etablissement, les fonctions et les prerogatives de ses magistrats : toutes les loix et tous les reglemens qui la concernent : on y a joint une description historique et topographique de Paris, & huit plans gravez, qui representent son ancien etat & ses divers accroissemens : avec un recueil de tous les statuts et reglemens des six corps des marchands, & de toutes les communautez des arts & métiers (Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1729), by Nicolas de La Mare (page images at HathiTrust)

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