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The Roads and Transport Policing Command, is a unit of the London Metropolitan Police Service that polices roads, buses, bus routes, taxis and minicabs. It was formed from two separate Commands: Safer Transport Command and Traffic Operational Command Unit. The OCU is staffed by regular officers and has its own Special Constables, who work ...
The Traffic Operational Command Unit (OCU), formally known as CO15, was the Road Policing Unit for the Metropolitan Police Service in Greater London, England.. On 1 December 2014, Traffic OCU was merged with the Safer Transport Command (STC), to create the new Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) under the heading of MO8 (Met Operations: Section 8).
Various Metropolitan Police vehicles attending a protest in 2021 A restored Rover SD1 traffic car in the Metropolitan Police's 'jam sandwich' livery first introduced in 1978. As of 2023, the Met operates and maintains a fleet of around 5,200 vehicles. [66] In 2018, the fleet covered 46,777,720 miles (75,281,440 km). [67]
Traffic wardens and Police Community Support Officers work at both airports. In 2005, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, announced that Specialist Operations units were to be re-aligned. The plans included forming three new departments within Specialist Operations to carry out specific functions:
The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [ 1 ] The codes, developed during 1937–1940 and expanded in 1974 by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), allow brevity and standardization of message traffic.
All officers' collar numbers were then suffixed by the letters "CP" rather than a divisional letter. In a fashion similar to the Metropolitan police,some units such as Traffic and the Support Group, have their collar number supplemented by either the T or U respectively in order to differentiate their additional training and skill set.
The APCO phonetic alphabet, a.k.a. LAPD radio alphabet, is the term for an old competing spelling alphabet to the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet, defined by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International [1] from 1941 to 1974, that is used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California and ...
The Territorial Support Group (TSG) is a Met Operations unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which specialises in public order policing, amongst other specialist areas. [1] In 2012 it consisted of 793 officers and 29 support staff. [ 2 ]