What’s with all the gear?

What’s with all the gear?

iStock.com/aijohn784 The beginning of policing and the first forms of policing can be debated to some degree; however, most of us would agree that modern-day policing started with Sir Robert Peel in London around 1829. This primitive police force carried, you guessed it, some primitive gear. The standard loadout of a Bobby in London at that time was a wooden truncheon, handcuffs, a wooden rattle to signal for help and an oil lantern for a light.…