Sir,—Your latest editorial (HI 30.5, Sept./Oct. 2022) offers a simple (and, indeed, quite simplistic) binary—as well as utterly unhistorical—distinction between (a) ‘military forces’ and (b) ‘a civil police force’. Ireland (outside Dublin City) was policed from 1836 not by ‘military forces’ but on a model that also operated both on the Continent and in Canada—the ... Read more
