Precisely for this reason, Sir Robert Peel had to go to great lengths, using means such as excluding the old city (London Financial City) police forces from the jurisdiction of Scotland Yard and amusing the Special Committee with various statistics on street crime and vagrancy, to ensure the successful parliamentary review of the Metropolitan Police Act.
For Londoners, eight years after the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act, they witnessed profound changes in London's urban landscape and experienced noticeably decreased crime rates.
As for Sir Arthur Hastings, the establishment of Scotland Yard marked a small step in his personal career, yet a giant leap for the British police system.
Since its inauguration in 1829, these rookies dressed in dark blue tailcoats became the laughingstock of London.
