Secret history: How the ‘most celebrated detective of his day’ helped establish the UK’s first security service

23rd April 2020Andrew Staniforth, Policing Insight

Policing Insight contributor Andrew Staniforth explores the contribution of Scotland Yard's 'most celebrated detective of the day' Police Superintendent William Melville whose work uncovering German espionage in the years before World War I led to the creation of the UK's first security service, now MI5 and MI6.

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