 In 1782, Popham submitted a plan for the creation of a regular police force in Madras city.The Pophams Broadway at Madras was once a fine road bisecting George Town into Peddanaickenpet and Muthialpet.Before, it was a road, it was a ditch in the suburb called Atta Pallam, and was owned by Stephen Popham, former MP of the British Parliament and later Advocate General at Calcutta, who moved to Madras in 1778.