Comments on: The Option of Flight https://www.isegoria.net/2012/06/the-option-of-flight/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2012/06/the-option-of-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-540087 Isegoria Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:17:59 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=29224#comment-540087 Peel’s principles of policing — which may or may not have been penned by Peel:

  1. The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
  2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.
  3. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
  4. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
  5. Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
  6. Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient.
  7. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
  8. Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions, and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
  9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
]]> By: Sconzey https://www.isegoria.net/2012/06/the-option-of-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-540054 Sconzey Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:58:31 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=29224#comment-540054 Alternatively, you stand at the top of Constitution Hill at midnight on the day of the new moon, and recite the nine principles backwards, thus summoning the angry revenant of Peel, who proceeds to use the marvels of 21st century technology to totally eliminate crime.

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