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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.
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]
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).
Met Police staff vote to take strike action December 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM The new policy would affect 2,400 people who support the day-to-day work of police officers [Getty Images]
Police motorcycles are also used in road safety initiatives such as Bikesafe, a national programme to reduce motorcycle casualties where police motorcyclists provide advanced rider training to members of the public. [7] Some Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group officers and Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection also use motorcycles.
Police give more speeding tickets to Black, Hispanic, and AAPI rideshare drivers than white ones, data shows. Carl Franzen. February 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM. Gorodenkoff // Shutterstock.
The union said it was the first time Met Police staff had voted for industrial action, and it “showed the depth of feeling” about the policy. Union general secretary Fran Heathcote said ...
Grant and Robert E. Bonner racing in a carriage in New York, as depicted in an 1868 lithograph. There are three reported arrests of Ulysses S. Grant by officers of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD), all for speeding by horse.