ABSTRACT
Patrick Colquhoun, a Scots magistrate in London, developed the police idea in books and pamphlets, and coined the phrases, "The Preventive Principle of Police" and "The New Science of Preventive Police," but he, also was defeated. Foreign visitors often conclude that what they find wonderful and astonishing in Britain's system of police can be accounted for by the highly-developed sense of orderliness and love of public order inherent in the character of the people. The appearance of orderliness and love of public order is coincident with the adoption of the system of Preventive Police inaugurated throughout the country during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The Police had discovered their fundamental dependence on public approval and co-operation, and had learned that these were an infinitely more powerful force for compelling observance of laws than physical compulsion. The Commissioners were active and successful in securing improved legislative definition of Police functions in 1839.
