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The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in the principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so. ==Context== In early 19th-century Britain, attempts by the government to set up a police force for London met with considerable opposition:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/candp/prevention/g08/g08cs2.htm )〕 * People were suspicious of the idea of a large police force, possibly armed. They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule. * Paris had the best-known, best-organised and best-paid police force at the time. Britain was at war with France almost continuously from 1793 to 1815, and during most of that time, France had a secret and political police, so many people disliked the idea because of the association with France. * People did not think that it was the job of the national government to set up and control a police force. They thought it should be under local control. The concept of professional policing was taken up by Robert Peel when he became Home Secretary in 1822. Peel's Metropolitan Police Act 1829 established a full-time, professional and centrally-organised police force for the Greater London area, known as the Metropolitan Police.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/laworder/policeprisons/overview/metropolitanpolice/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peelian Principles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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