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unusual facts about Metropolitan Police



2013 in England

10 January – April Casburn, a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police is found guilty of trying to sell information on the investigation into phone hacking to the News of the World, the newspaper at the centre of the scandal.

Adolphus Williamson

Frederick Adolphus "Dolly" Williamson (1830 – 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Ahmed Shafeeq Ibrahim Moosa

Moosa filed a complaint to Wiltshire Police who investigated the death threat with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police in London.

Alan Dickie

Dickie joined the Metropolitan Police and later worked in the Coroner's Office at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Andrew Croft

In 1960 Croft became the first Commandant of the Metropolitan Police's Hendon Police College, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours for his successful development of the Corps of Cadets.

Assistant commissioner

Assistant commissioner of police of the metropolis (AC) is the third highest rank in the London Metropolitan Police, ranking between deputy assistant commissioner and deputy commissioner of police of the metropolis.

Basic Command Unit

The Metropolitan Police use the term Borough Operational Command Unit (BOCU) for regional units (which are based on the 32 London boroughs) and Operational Command Unit (OCU) for other units, for example the Aviation Security OCU.

Battle of Liberty Place

Among those injured in the fighting at Liberty Place was Algernon Sidney Badger, superintendent of the Metropolitan Police.

Chief superintendent

In the British police, a chief superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "chief super") is senior to a superintendent and junior to an assistant chief constable (or a commander in the Metropolitan Police or City of London Police).

Child Abuse Investigation Team

Within the London Metropolitan Police Service, CAIT is an Operational Command Unit within the Specialist Crime Directorate.

Courtney Coventry

She was flown to UK by the Metropolitan Police at British taxpayers' expense on the day before Tony Blair was to resign from office, 26 June 2007 where she was met at London's Heathrow Airport by plainclothes police escorts.

Death of Gareth Williams

Vincent Williams from the Metropolitan Police informed the Westminster Coroner's Court that experts were agreed that it was impossible for Gareth Williams to have locked himself in.

DNAPrint Genomics

In 2006, Scotland Yard and London's Metropolitan Police announced that they would be investigating the use of DNAWitness to narrow suspects in the search for a long-standing effort to capture a serial rapist known as the Minstead Rapist.

Ernest Ebbage

In 1908 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team Metropolitan Police "K" Division.

Feargal Sharkey

He has become prominent in criticising the use of Form 696 by the Metropolitan Police' requiring event promoters to provide data on performers and audiences.

Firearms unit

Possibly one of the most notable FIUs is the Metropolitan Police's Operation Trident & Trafalgar, which initially only investigated gun crime involving the black community but has since expanded to investigate all shootings.

Within London's Metropolitan Police, "authorised shots" were not completely phased out after the creation of AFO and SFO.

In the Metropolitan Police the issue of firearms to stations was standardised with; ten pistols with 320 rounds of ammunition issued to divisional stations, six pistols with 192 rounds per sub-divisional station, and three pistols with 96 rounds to each section station.

The Metropolitan Police was formed on the 29 September 1829, with the passing of the Metropolitan Police Act.

Graham Fellows

In July 2009, he read Radio 4's Book of the Week, You're Coming With Me Lad by Mike Pannett, a Metropolitan Police officer's semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in the North Yorkshire town of Malton.

History of the Ministry of Defence Police

Following the necessary Act of Parliament in 1860, the Metropolitan Police took over policing of Portsmouth and Devonport Dockyards.

Consequently, the first records of police in the Army Dept appear circa 1860 when Metropolitan Police were called upon to police The Royal Arsenal.

John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley

He tried again in 1953 with Cynthia Abdy Westendarp, but they too were divorced in 1961; together they had a son, Henry, who served in the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police.

Jorge Alberto Palacios

Head of the Argentine Federal Police Anti-Terrorism Unit, in 2009 he was appointed by Mayor Mauricio Macri to lead the Metropolitan Police, the new police force of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Leonard Burt

On 16 June 1945, as a Commander in the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, Burt was assigned to accompany war-time traitor William Joyce (also known as "Lord Haw-Haw") back to London to be tried for treason, after Joyce was captured by British forces in Germany.

London Buses route 11

On 4 June 2002, Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, the Metropolitan Police flagged down a Number 11 bus and used it as temporary transport for twenty-three peaceful anti-royalty demonstrators whom they had arrested after the demonstration, most of them in a nearby pub.

Lorenz cipher

Its interception was originally concentrated at the Foreign Office Y Station operated by the Metropolitan Police at Denmark Hill in Camberwell, London.

Lucy Panton

On 30 October 2010, Panton was asked by News of the World news editor James Mellor to find out more from Metropolitan Police anti-terror head John Yates about the printer cartridge bomb found on a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport the previous day.

Race and crime in the United Kingdom

Operation Trident was set up in March 1998 by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community after black-on-black shootings in Lambeth and Brent.

Royal Parks of London

They are managed by The Royal Parks (an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) and are policed by the Royal Parks Operational Command Unit of the Metropolitan Police (the English section of the previous force policing the parks, the Royal Parks Constabulary, has been abolished).

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Whicher seeks the help of his former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police, including 'Dolly' Williamson (William Beck) and Commissioner Mayne (Tim Pigott-Smith), but, with the exception of Inspector Lock (Shaun Dingwall), they warn Whicher off from interfering in what is a police matter.

The Terrorist Hunters

The Terrorist Hunters (published 2009) is a controversial non-fiction book by former senior police officer Andy Hayman, co-written by Margaret Gilmore, about Hayman's role as head of the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Operations Division.

Timeline of the 2005 London bombings

11:10: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair confirms fears that it is a coordinated terror attack, but appeals for calm, asking people not to travel to London or make unnecessary calls to the emergency services.

WD postcode area

One reason for this long-winded procedure was to ensure that Watford postal workers received London weighting payments, as Bushey was in the London Metropolitan Police area at the time.


see also

Brit Cops

Sky Cops - series broadcast on BBC featuring the Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit

C3I

The C3I Programme, an initiative of London's Metropolitan Police Service

Death of Gareth Williams

The coroner was highly critical of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15), who failed to tell the senior investigating officer before the inquest began of the existence of nine memory sticks and other property in Williams's SIS office.

Duwayne Brooks

The murder led to an inquiry headed by Sir William Macpherson which concluded that the Metropolitan Police Force was “institutionally racist” and which contributed to the passing of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which altered the double jeopardy law.

Garston Ladies FC

Garston Ladies FC is an FA Charter Standard football club for girls and women, based at the Metropolitan Police Sports Club in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

John F. Dickson

He remained in command of the precinct until Captain Joseph Dowling, who had formerly sided with Mayor Fernando Wood and the Municipal police force during the Police Riot of 1857, replaced Dickson upon joining the Metropolitan police in 1859.

Kirkwhelpington

John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, whose career included head of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Chancellor of Northumbria University.

Kratos

Operation Kratos, tactics developed by London's Metropolitan Police Service for dealing with suspected bombers, including shooting suspects without warning

Langton Green

There is a private school called Holmewood House located in the village and the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Condon lives there.

London Police

Marine Police Force (1798-1839), said to be England's first police force, merged into the Metropolitan Police Service

Melville Macnaghten

When Henry was appointed Commissioner in 1903, succeeding Sir Edward Bradford, Macnaghten was appointed Assistant Commissioner (Crime) and became involved in many of the most famous cases in the history of the Metropolitan Police, including the Hawley Harvey Crippen case and the Farrow double murder case, which resulted in the conviction and hanging of the Albert and Alfred Stratton largely on the basis on fingerprint evidence.

Metropolitan Police Act 1933

The Metropolitan Police Act was a 1933 Act of Parliament initiated by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Millennium Star

There was an attempt on 7 November 2000 to steal the collection (see Millennium Dome raid), but the Metropolitan Police discovered the plot and arrested the robbers before their escape.

Shepherd's Bush murders

The Metropolitan Police Firearms Wing, now known as CO19, was established soon after the incident.

SO4

National Identification Service, a department of the London Metropolitan Police which provides a range of support services on behalf of the Metropolitan Police and other police forces

Special Squad

Special Demonstration Squad, an undercover unit of Greater London 's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS or the Met), set up in 1968

Thomas Saunders

Thomas William Saunders (1814–1890), British metropolitan police magistrate

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau

SO15 Specialist Operations branch within London's Metropolitan Police Service.

Tom Mahir

He also represented the Metropolitan Police at billiards and snooker and was a referee and judge for the Amateur Boxing Association.

Víkingasveitin

Today, members of the unit are stationed in three different police districts, Höfuðborgarsvæðið police district (metropolitan police), Suðurnes police district and Akureyri police district.

Wheeler Compromise

In September 1874, in the Battle of Liberty Place, 5,000 members of the White League fought against about 3500 Metropolitan police in a takeover of state buildings for three days, attempting to take back the state government and seat John McEnery as governor.