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The Vigiles were a police force[1] in ancient Rome, so they're not a recent innovation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigiles#Police_force

>>ben509+(OP)
That's not "modern police" as in the modern organized structure. Even the wild west had marshalls and sherrifs but they were not police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police under history, look at the "modern police" section. I find this poster against police in Wales a bit amusing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/No_Polic...

Law enforcement is not the synonymous with police.

>>ben509+(OP)
You wouldn't go out in ancient Rome after dark, though. Unless you could afford armed bodyguards.