Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
An early investigative unit established at Scotland Yard in 1842, consisting of officers in plain clothes who were often mistrusted by the public.
Detective Branch appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Nature of Law Enforcement and Punishment.
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