WI no police?

Then the Marine Police Force is slowly expanded to cover the whole city, not just the river. Honestly though I can't see a situation where something similar to the Metropolitan Police doesn't become standard. Crime prevention makes too much economic sense over more ad hoc models, which was the argument used to create the Marine and Met police in our history.
 
You'd probably have some less efficient ad hoc system of private security contractors, vigilantes/neighborhood watch groups, and bounty hunters emerge. The emergence of capitalism necessitates the use of force to protect property.
 
Then you'd most likely get a centralised police force along the lines of the Carabinieri in Italy instead of municipally organised police forces. Police forces had existed long before the first bobbies had started patroling the streets of London.
 
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