Talk:An Impasse at Waywickshire/@comment-25488152-20141001194636/@comment-35711173-20190906080405

HopelessNightOwl,

Wikipedia says different. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

"Before the 19th century, the first use of the word "police" recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798."