Bow Street
/ˈbəʊ striːt/
/ˈbəʊ striːt/
- the main police court in London, which was in the street of this name until the early 1990s. It is now at Charing Cross. When Henry Fielding was a magistrate at Bow Street in the 1740s, he formed the Bow Street Runner, a group of people trained to catch thieves. This was the first step towards the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829.
弓街(Bow Street):伦敦的主要警察法院,直到1990年代初一直沿用这个名字。现在在查令十字街。亨利·菲尔丁(Henry Fielding)在1740年代担任弓街区的县长时,他成立了弓街跑者,这是一群训练有素的贼人。这是1829年创建大都会警察的第一步。