section_path: History
section_name: History
paragraph_text: History
  
  Its creation dates back to the 19th century. Until the dissolution of the Janissaries in 1826, police services in the Ottoman Empire were carried out by local garrisons and public administrators.
  
  The present-day TNP was then established in 1845, as part of the Tanzimat, with a law inspired by the Paris Police.
  
  Though it faced massive changes in function and structure over the years, the institution itself remained the same and was not replaced by a successor during the Turkish Revolution.