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__ Forms of Policing have been around for a while but the first organized police force originated in London. After Sir Robert Peel became the Tory Home Secretary in 1822 The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829 was passed. This act set up seventeen organized police divisons. Each division had four inspectors and one-hundred-forty-four constables under its control. The division itself was controlled from scotland yard and had to answer to the homeland secretary. __[1] Policing has come a long way since then and now has a larger variety of public safety officials. Some of those offices included are the daily police that you see around the neighborhood, CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service. Not only have the organizations for Public Officials grown but so has the crime in America. These Public Officials continue to protect people despite all the potential danger that is involved.

Since both crime and technology has grown, weapons like guns, pose an all new threat level for Police Officers. They also have to worry about being killed in a traffic pursuit or stabbed by a suspect during arrest situations. __Between 1976 and 1998 of the 1,800 plus officers that were killed in the line of duty sixteen percent were on disturbance calls, fourteen percent were in making a robberry arrest, fourteen percent were from investigating a suspicious person, thirteen percent were from traffic stops and pursuits, thirteen percent were from other arrest situations, and ten percent involved ambush situations.__ [2] __Not only do officers have to worry about the physical dangers but they have to worry about the stress factors too. Suicide due to stress on the job is one of those other stress factors.__ [3]__ The Police force is actually has one of the highest suicide rates among its employees. __[4] Looking at those things a person starts to wonder how Police do it everyday but the answer is quite simple, they do theie job to protect all the innocent people that are out there. __Despite all the bad things though, in the year 2000 there were nearly 800,000 officers sworn in the Untited States.__ [5]

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