ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that the particular agency challenge some established theories concerning the emergence of the New Police in Yorkshire and analyzes the relationship between public and private policing in the mid– to late nineteenth century. It addresses some questions. First, how was the Worsted Inspectorate organized in the West Riding, and how did it operate in a way that enabled it to curb appropriation from the factory? Furthermore, what was the interaction and relationship between the "official" police forces and the Inspectorate, and how did this change over the 1840-80 period? The chapter also examines the reasons for the 1870 renaissance and, indeed, follow the progress of the Inspectorate from 1840 to 1880. As Robert D. Storch has shown, the police were seen as intruders into workers' lives. He gives the situation in Coke as an example of the bitter feuding that sometimes occurred between police and the occupants of the northern industrial districts.
