http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=599502005
LINDA SUMMERHAYES AND JOHN GIBSON
"ACCORDING to popular belief, the first bobbies on the beat were introduced in London by 19th century Home Secretary Robert Peel.
But what few people know is solving grizzly murders and pounding the beat was taking place in Edinburgh years before the 'Peelers' were launched.
It is now 200 years since the Edinburgh Police Act was passed and the concept of a modern city-wide police force was born. "
