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  2. History of the Metropolitan Police - Wikipedia

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    The official title was changed from "Metropolitan Police" to "Metropolitan Police Service" as part of the "PLUS Programme" in 1989, under the then Commissioner Sir Peter Imbert, following the presentation of a report entitled "A Service for Change: Report on the Corporate Identity of the Metropolitan Police" to the service's Policy Committee by ...

  3. Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

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    After the formation of the Metropolitan Police and its governing Board of Commissioners by Act of Congress, signed into law by Lincoln on August 6, 1861, Lincoln dispatched a member of the board to study the New York City Police Department and its structure. [8] The Metropolitan Police replaced previous law enforcement organizations.

  4. List of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia

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    District of Columbia flag Badge of a Deputy U.S. Marshal. This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the District of Columbia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the District has six local law enforcement agencies employing 4,262 sworn police officers, about 722 for each 100,000 residents.

  5. Category:History of the Metropolitan Police - Wikipedia

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    List of medals awarded to Metropolitan Police officers; Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage; Metropolitan Police Act 1829; Metropolitan Police Act 1833; Metropolitan Police Act 1839; Metropolitan Police Act 1857; Metropolitan Police District; Metropolitan Police Historic Vehicle Collection; Metropolitan Police Museum; Metropolitan Police ...

  6. Metropolitan Police - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Police Service was founded in 1829 by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and on 29 September of that year, the first constables of the service appeared on the streets of London. [17]

  7. Law enforcement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Like most states, Virginia also has campus police officers. Under Virginia State Code 23.1-809 and 23.1-810, public and private colleges and universities can maintain their own armed police force and employ sworn campus police officers.

  8. List of law enforcement agencies in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.

  9. Patrick Colquhoun - Wikipedia

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    Kelvingrove House pictured by Thomas Annan in 1870. Colquhoun, a descendant of the Scottish Clan Colquhoun of Luss, was born in Dumbarton in 1745. [1] Orphaned at the age of 16, his relatives sent him to America, setting him up in the lucrative commercial trade in Virginia.