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Content: The policing of crime and
politics merge and political dissent becomes a crime. The meaning of the term police
has changed over the last 5 centuries. The word police comes from "polity",
meaning the form of government of a political body. In Europe in the 15thcentury it referred broadly to matters involving life, health and property. There was no distinct police force. Policing was done intermittently by
the military and society was largely "unpoliced". With the formation of
modern states with clear national borders beginning in the 18thcentury, policing became concerned with internal security and the prevention
of public dangers. With the expansion of the law over the next several
centuries police came to be increasingly concerned with internal security,
the prevention of public dangers and the prevention r redress of breaches
of law. They also themselves came to be more controlled by the law. There is no simple or widely
agreed upon definition of a democratic police.