Robert Taylor told the story of common law policing from Anglo-Saxon times , through the Norman period and the civic office of Constable ( mentioned in the Magna Carta) , the British Columbia Provincial Police, and the establishment of the Oak Bay Police in 1906 and its evolution into BC’s integrated policing model.
( The lecture ‘Crime in Oak Bay 1850s through 1940s’ was postponed to February 26, 2027)