I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did the Metropolitan Police Act say police were a subset of?
All the background I'm provided with is that "This was very different to the 'Continental model' of the police force that had been developed in France, where the police force worked within the parameters of the absolutist state as an extension of the authority of the monarch and functioned as part of the governing state.". Is that enough to answer the question?