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. Provided by Wikipedia