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education of police  

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  • Improving the education of police has been an enduring feature of reform in America and other Western nations. Although the desirability of a professionally trained police force can be dated at least as far back as Sir Robert Peele (around 1830), the notion received support in America from a variety of police reformers, such as August Vollmer, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Wickersham Commission. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Education of Police]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SZW0F02G-S

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