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« They have an admirable police at Paris, but they pay for it dear enough ». La police européenne vue d’Angleterre au XIXe siècle

This chapter, which forms part of a volume focussed on the development of police knowledge in Europe, analyses the reasons behind the singular development of policing in England. It demonstrates, from a range of primary sources, the ways in which commentators in England shifted from admiration to scepticism in their views of ‘continental’ policing. Via an analysis of international policing collaboration at the Great Exhibition of 1851, it concludes that a desire for the English police to remain overtly ‘non-political’, and adverse stereotypes of continental forces, precluded significant international police co-operation until at least the 1920s.