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The Napoleonic period, as the years of the Kingdom of Holland (1806–10) and the French Occupation (1810–13) were known, was of fundamental importance for the police in Holland. Before 1806 no separate police corps existed and the word police was commonly used in the traditional meaning of policy and regulation and not associated with police work, as we know it today.
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Joor, J. (2012). Resistance against Napoleon in the Kingdom of Holland. In: Broers, M., Hicks, P., Guimerá, A. (eds) The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271396_11
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