Charles Reith

Charles Edward Williams Reith (27 November 1886 - 7 February 1957) was a Scottish police historian, best known for distilling the thought of Robert Peel into nine principles in his 1948 book A short history of the British police. He worked in Sri Lanka as a tea- and rubber- planter, where he joined the Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps and on its disbandment rose to Captain in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.

Works An Ensign of the 19th Foot. A novel, etc, 1925 The Police Idea, 1938 Police Principles and the Problem of War, 1940 British Police and the Democratic Ideal, 1943 A short history of the British police, 1948 Comparative systems of law-enforcement, 1948 The Blind Eye of History. A study of the origins of the present police era, 1952 A New Study of Police History, 1956