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Peel's Metropolitan Police Act 1829 established a full-time, professional and centrally-organised police force for the Greater London area, known as the Metropolitan Police. [7] [8] The Peelian principles describe the philosophy that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force.
Mounted MPS officer outside Buckingham Palace, London. The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, England is organised into five main directorates, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner, and four civilian-staffed support departments previously under the umbrella of Met Headquarters, each headed by a Chief Officer, the equivalent civilian grade to Assistant Commissioner.
Before 2000, the Metropolitan Police was under the authority of the Home Secretary, the only British territorial police force to be administered by central government. The Metropolitan Police Office (MPO), although based at Scotland Yard, was a department of the Home Office created in 1829 and was responsible for the force's day-to-day ...
Paul Condon joined the police in 1967. He became Chief Constable of Kent in 1989 and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1993 at the age of 45, the youngest person to do so, stepping down in 2000. [1] His tenure as head of the Metropolitan Police Service was marked by the Stephen Lawrence case, which became a
The Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1884 was the collective title of the Metropolitan Police Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 17), and the acts listed in the schedule to that act. [1] The Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895 is the collective title of the following acts: [2] The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 44)
Long title: An Act to amend the enactments relating to the metropolitan police force in regard to the number of assistant commissioners of police, the age of compulsory retirement, membership of the Police Federation and the appointment of constables for a fixed period of service; to adapt to the case of constables so appointed the enactments relating to police pensions and gratuities ...
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan police were found to be 2.17 times as likely to issue fines to black people for lockdown breaches, relative to the general population. [5] [6] The Met said: "In total, more white people received FPNs [fixed penalty notices] or were arrested than other individual ethnic groups.
Pages in category "Metropolitan Police officers" The following 171 pages are in this category, out of 171 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;