Law Enforcement, was a lot of other things.

You wrote: 

>of course, it all depends on your definition of 'police'. i think 
peel's innovation was more to do with putting detection and uniform 
together under civil authority, but i'm not sure. all societies must 
have had some sort of law enforcement; whether you call them police or 
not is a matter of semantics, not history.

Give that man a prize!	Splitting law enforcement off from military and 
paramilitary functions was the major innovation.

Dragging this back on-topic, I recently got an order in from Eureka for 
those nifty[1] grav bikes and Nic tossed in a couple of extras 
including an Indonesian type with a submachine gun and light body 
armor.	Will probably end up ordering a dozen or so as paramilitaries 
or security police some time in the near future.

John
[1]These are incredibly cool.  I havn't decided where to slot these 
puppies into my TO&E, though.  I'm torn between scout platoons and 
dragoon batallions (like the OUDF uses them).  Might go with both.  Who 
knows?	BTW, when are the 6mm versions coming out?