Robert Peel famously said that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder.

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The Principles of Policing introduced by Robert Peel in the 1820s emphasise the community-based rather than authoritarian approach that has been the bedrock of our police services (as opposed to forces).

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When GMP moved into their new glass-fronted headquarters recently, Sir Peter asked that the principles of Sir Robert Peel be written on the windows in letters that can be read 50m away.

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Wales assistant coach Robert Howley says Peel was disappointed at his omission and frustrated at not being a regular starter for Sale.

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Benjamin Morris, 36, of 21 Peel Mount Blackburn, Lancashire and Thomas Robert Martin, 36, of Tarbert Crescent, Blackburn, were sentenced to two years for conspiracy to supply methadone.

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