The act 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 87, sometimes called the Thames Police Act 1800,Bruce P Smith, "The Emergence of Public Prosecution in London" (2006) 18 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 29 at 55; Timothy Brain, "The New Police 1829" (2016) Enlightenment and Dissent, No 31, p 1 at p 46. "Thames Police Act": Report from Select Committee on Metropolis Police Officers, 1838, p 25. the Thames River Police Act 1800,Jurkiewicz (ed), Global Corruption and Ethics Management, 2020, p 278. "Thames River Police Act": Schofield (ed), The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, 1993, p 174; Radzinowicz, History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750, 1948, vol 2, p 389 the Marine Police ActWatson, Medicine and Justice, 2020 PT241 or the Depredations on the Thames Act 1800,Current Law Statutes 1997, vol 3, p 47; Cornish, Banks, Mitchell, Mitchell and Probert, Law and Society in England 1750-1950, 2nd Ed, p xlii. was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, granted royal assent on 28 July 1800. As alluded to in its long title, it amended the Thefts upon the Thames Act 1762 (2 Geo. 3. c. 28).
Established two years earlier, the Marine Police Force was initially run and funded by the West Indies merchants whose cargoes in the Pool of London it was principally intended to protect. The act converted it to a publicly-run and publicly funded body, increased its establishment to 88 men and set out regulations for how they were now to operate under the Home Secretary's direct supervision, thus laying the groundwork for the Force's absorption into the Metropolitan Police in 1839.
The act was amended and renewed by the Depredations on the Thames Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 37), the Depredations on the Thames Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3. c. 187), the Police Magistrates Metropolitan Act 1822 (1 Geo. 4. c. 66), the Police Magistrates, Metropolis Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 19) and finally the Justices of the Peace in Metropolis Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 37). The Marine Police were finally absorbed into the Metropolitan Police via the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47).
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116), which came into force on 21 August 1871.
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