> In righteous societies, police were not a separate, elite order.
> They were everybody.
Attributed to John Peel in his establishment of London Metropolitan Police:
“To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to
the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are
the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give
full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in
the interests of community welfare and existence.”¹
¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles