The History of the British Police Force

In the early days of the met, which is theoretically a uniformed force, they are obviously sending out people in plain clothes to catch criminals or or miscreants. The hunt for peter sutcliff, known as the yorkshire ripper, in the 19 seventies was carried out with variing degrees of competence by a lot of different police forces across the whole north of england. So that probably of any one crime that has shaped the way that murder h's been investigated in england and wales for the last forty years. And actuallyif you lok at the clear up rate for murder, it's high. Some forces have got at 99 % clear up rates