Criminalité et police à Londres au XIXe siècle by Philippe Chassaigne

“…London, where law and order was felt to be most at risk, was used as a testing ground for such a reform by the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, in 1829. The experience was successful, so that the numbers and the powers of the Metropolitan Force were gradually extended, while the London police was taken as a model, albeit rather slowly, by other local authorities in England (Scotland and Ireland retaining their own system of police organisation). …”
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La cible Marx Dormoy (1936-1941) by Franck Tison

“…Their grudge was kept alive by the nationalist press as early as november 1936, when Marx Dormoy became Home secretary in the Front populaire-cabinet and stepped up the struggle against Jacques Doriot and the Cagoule. …”
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UK Citizenship in the Early 21st Century: Earning and Losing the Right to Stay by Catherine Puzzo

“…Simultaneously the power to deprive somebody of his citizenship has been extended in a context of increased securitization of migration. Home Secretaries have been exercising more and more their power to strip people of their British citizenship and withdraw passport facilities for those individuals suspected of having been involved in terrorist activities or considered to be a threat to national security.…”
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