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unusual facts about Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis


Sean Hoare

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson and his deputy commissioner John Yates resigned within a week of Hoare's statements.


Firearms unit

Despite this, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel gave the Commissioner authorisation to purchase fifty flintlock pocket pistols for use in exceptional circumstances.

Police Minstrels

Commissioners Sir William Horwood and Lord Byng both objected to this, as did the Police Federation, claiming that people may feel intimidated into buying tickets and that it detracted from the dignity of the rank.

Sir Evelyn Bradford, 2nd Baronet

Sir Edward was the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service from 1890 to 1903.


see also

Edmund Henderson

In 1869, Henderson was appointed to succeed Sir Richard Mayne as second sole Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

Edward Bradford

Sir Edward Bradford, 1st Baronet (1836–1911), Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1890–1903

John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington

After his retirement as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on 6 April 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, of Kirkwhelpington in the County of Northumberland.