[TheSpiceIsLife]

I hasn’t heard of Sir Robert Peel before, thanks.

Though I was aware of the general concept of policing by consent.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Peelian principales of policing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force. The approach expressed in these principles is commonly known as policing by consent in the United Kingdom and other countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In this model of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow citizens. "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.