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the English police have risen in the estimation
Year by year, in spite of occasional set-backs, the English police have risen in the estimation of their fellow-countrymen until they have won for themselves a position in the minds of the people which for respect and regard combined is without a parallel in Europe.
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee

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