Peelian principles

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The Peelian principles are a set of theses, attributed to the statesman Sir Robert Peel, defining an ethical police force's conduct. In law, it is known as policing by consent, with the concept being invoked in law enforcement in the United Kingdom, as well as Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The Peelian principles regard police officers as effectively citizens in uniform exercising their powers to police their fellow citizens, with their implicit consent, both collectively and individually. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers, and their accountability for doing so. It is contested as to whether Peel first wrote or conceived of the theses, with elements from texts by Richard Mayne and Charles Rowan, joint Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police which Peel founded, cited in studies as being repeated and...

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