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=﻿Who were the main law enforcers in ancient Greece?= By Jackson Batchelor

The ancient greeks in their time did not really have a police force. Instead they used publicly owned slaves to keep their city crime free. These slaves before being turned into city guardians were educated in the laws of the city. After this had happened the slaves were sent to parol the city and keep an eye out for anything suspicious. If the slaves suspected a crime was committed they wouldn't investigate it. Instead they would tell the community about it and the citizens would investigate. If the citizens thought they had the culprite, the policing slaves would be brought in and they would've made the arrest. After the arrest was made the person was sent to trial and tryed by the jury. Also the ancient greeks didn't use normal citizens as police officers because they thought it was weird being bossed around by a fellow citizen. So instead they used slaves that were owned by the government to keep them safe.

The ancient Greece police force also had other jobs as well. These were crowd control at trials, handling prisoners and guarding private meetings. These ancient greek police forces were quite different to our modern day police forces. This is because the police were not paid in money, instead they were just given enough food to survive. Also the police in our days are armed with weapons that can stun a criminal. Back then the police were armed only with knowledge and a stick and thats about it. Another difference between today and the ancient greeks is that any publicly owned slave could be an officer. Where as now it takes a couple of years of training to become one. Also to become a police officer you can't have a criminal record. Also the training now inovolves lots of different situatuons and skills unlike the ancient greeks were they were just taught the laws.

As you can see the jobs of police officers now and police officers in ancient Greece had some simliarities but were in some ways completely different. But the biggest difference I think is that in ancient Greece only men could be policing slaves because they were the stronger of the genders. The ancient greeks did this to show the people that the men were stronger and that they were the boss. Today though, that would never happen because people now have realized that everyone is equal and needs to be treated the same. Also now women are interested in lots of different jobs and not just cooking and cleaning.