The Police
Collocations With Police
Law enforcement methods existed within the various kingdoms and empires of ancient India. The Apastamba Dharmasutra prescribes that kings should appoint officers and subordinates in the cities and villages to guard their subjects from crime. Various inscriptions and literature from ancient India recommend that a variety of roles existed for regulation enforcement officials similar to these of a constable, thief catcher, watchman, and detective. Law enforcement in historical China was carried out by “prefects” for hundreds of years because it developed in both the Chu and Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period. In Jin, dozens of prefects have been spread across the state, every having restricted authority and employment interval.
Watchmen guarded the city gates at night time, patrolled the streets, arrested these on the streets at evening with out good reason, and also acted as firefighters. Eventually the workplace of justice of the peace was established, with a justice of the peace overseeing constables. Pre-Columbian Mesoamarican civilizations also had organized regulation enforcement. The metropolis-states of the Maya civilization had constables generally known as tupils, as well as bailiffs. In the Aztec Empire, judges had officers serving under them who have been empowered to carry out arrests, even of dignitaries. In the Inca Empire, officers called curaca enforced the law among the households they have been assigned to oversee, with inspectors generally known as tokoyrikoq (lit. “he who sees all”) additionally stationed all through the provinces to maintain order.
