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21 unusual facts about Metropolitan Police Service


Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Shortly afterwards Cody and Derek chase Diaz, armed with a rocket gun, through London streets, but Cody is captured by the Metropolitan Police Service and taken to Scotland Yard.

Alan Dickie

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

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.

British Tamil Association

In June 2007, the founder of BTA, Krishanthakumar alias Shanthan was arrested by Metropolitan Police Service.

Child Abuse Investigation Team

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

Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Founded in 1928, it is recognised by Sports England, the Department of the Environment, the Home Office, the Police etc. and it is a constituent member of the International Clay Pigeon Shooting Council of Great Britain and Ireland and is represented on The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities through the British Shooting Sports Council.

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.

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.

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.

Murder of Zoe Nelson

Detective Constable (DC) Jennifer Bell, who had previously been seconded to the Metropolitan Police Service's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, was brought into the inquiry to examine hours of recovered CCTV footage for sightings of Nelson.

Parish constable

In London, the position was ended with the introduction of the Metropolitan Police Service in 1829, which created a full-time professional force.

Sir Evelyn Bradford, 2nd Baronet

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

Specialist Investigation Department

The Specialist Investigation Department is a branch of the Criminal Investigation Department of a British police force (although many use different names) which investigates crimes such as murder and sexual offences supplying specially trained officers to monitor known ex offenders which have a history of sex offences and also this unit could be considered the same as Area Major Incident Pool of the Metropolitan Police Service.

Vauxhall Astra

The Metropolitan Police Service use a collection of the MK4 and MK5 Astras, mostly as of 2007, the mark in popular use is the MK5, these are used as Incident Response Vehicles (IRVs) and are commonly seen on the roads of London.

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.


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).

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.

John Greenway

He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, leaving the force in 1969 to sell life insurance for Equitable Life.

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.

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).