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METROPOLITAN POLICE ACT OF 1829 – the act of
Parliament that created the London Metropolitan
Police, the first centralized, professional police
force in Britain, which soon became the
international model of professional policing.

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION – any examination
or study which is made with the microscope in
order to discover minute physical details.

MILITARY SECURITY – it encompasses the
measures taken by a command to protect itself
against espionage, enemy operation, sabotage,
subversion or surprise.

MINIMUM SECURITY PRISONERS – a group of
prisoners who can be reasonably trusted to serve
sentence under “open conditions”. This group
includes prisoners who can be trusted to report to
their work assignments without the presence of
guards.

MINUTIAE – small or precise detail of something; in
fingerprinting, it is the characteristics of friction
ridges on palms, fingers, toes, and soles of the
feet.

MIRANDA DOCTRINE – a principle on the rights of
a suspect from forced self-incrimination during
police interrogation.

MIRANDA V. ARIZONA – the 1966 case in which the
Supreme Court established that law officers must
advise a person of his or her constitutional rights
before beginning an in-custody interrogation.

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