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INTRODUCTION.

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 The Ratcliffe Highway murders in east London shock the public with their randomness and brutality. William Booth is the last person in England to be hanged for forgery.

Eugène -François Vidocq founds the Sûreté nationale, a plainclothes security policing

unit, in France.  Mathieu Orfila publishes his

seminal work on poisons and their detection.

Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectroscope, a pivotal tool in forensic analysis. A police line-up is used for

criminal identification the first time in England.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně identifies nine fingerprint patterns including the arch, loop and whorl. Sir Robert Peel establishes the Metr

opolitan Police Service in London.