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Specialist Crime Directorate (Metropolitan Police)
The Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD) was one of the main branches of London's Metropolitan Police Service. Formed in November 2002, it provided highly visible specialist policing services across the whole of London. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley had previously led the directorate but it was later led by Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick. The Directorate led national police agency with regard to specialist crime investigations such as e-crime, sex crimes (paedophile unit) or kidnappings, hostage-taking and contract killings. The Specialist Crime Directorate was merged with Central Operations to create Specialist Crime & Operations, which was itself later split, with Operations now in Met Operations Met Operations, also known as Met Ops, is one of the eight business groups which forms the Metropolitan Police Service and is responsible for providing operational support services. It was created during the 2018–19 restructuring of the service ... and Specialist Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assistant Commissioner Of Police Of The Metropolis
Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, usually just Assistant Commissioner (AC), is the third highest rank in London's Metropolitan Police, ranking below Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Deputy Commissioner and above Deputy Assistant Commissioner. There have usually been four officers in the rank; however, at times there have been five to seven and, as of June 2025, there are six owing to the continuing secondment of Stephen Kavanagh to Interpol. From 1 September 2016 the salary is £198,823 (plus £2,373 allowance). This does not include use of private car and pension contributions. This makes them the equal fifth highest paid police officers in the United Kingdom, behind the Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, the Chief Constable of Police Scotland, and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and alongside the chief constables of West Midlands Police, West Midlands and Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester. 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rowley (police Officer)
Sir Mark Peter Rowley (; born November 1964) is a British police officer who has been the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis since September 2022. He was the Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police Service and the concurrent Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council Counter-Terrorism Coordination Committee and National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing. He was previously Chief Constable of Surrey Police (2009–2011), and also served as Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police between February 2017 and April 2017. He retired from the police in March 2018. In July 2022, it was announced that he would return to policing in the role of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, replacing former Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick. He was sworn in as Commissioner on 12 September 2022. Early life Rowley was born in Birmingham. His father ran a small engineering business; his mother was a teacher. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cressida Dick
Dame Cressida Rose Dick (born 16 October 1960) is a British former police officer who served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2017 to 2022. She is both the first female and the first openly homosexual officer to lead the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS; or "the Met"). Dick joined the MPS in 1983. From 1995 to 2000, she was a high-ranking officer in the Thames Valley Police. After earning a master's degree in criminology, she returned to the Met in 2001, and subsequently held senior roles in the force's diversity directorate, in anti-gang and anti-gun crime operations, and in counterterrorism operations. In June 2009 she was promoted to the rank of assistant commissioner, the first woman to hold this rank substantively. She briefly served as acting deputy commissioner in late 2011 and 2012 during a vacancy in the office. She oversaw the Met's security preparations for the security operations for the 2012 London Olympics. Dick retired from the Met in 2015 to acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract Killing
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be a person, group, or organization. Contract killing has been associated with organized crime, government conspiracies, dictatorships and vendettas. Contract killing provides the hiring party with the advantage of not having to carry out the actual killing, making it more difficult for law enforcement to connect the client with the murder. The likelihood that authorities will establish that party's guilt for the committed crime, especially due to lack of forensic evidence linked to the contracting party, makes the case more difficult to attribute to the hiring party. Contract killers may exhibit serial killer traits, but are generally not classified as such because of third-party killing objectives and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Operations
Central Operations (abbreviated CO) was a major directorate of the London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ... Metropolitan Police Service that provides operational support to the rest of the service. It was commanded by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, formerly Chief Constable of Surrey Police. In 2012 Central Operations (CO) merged with the Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD) to form Specialist Crime & Operations (SC&O) Units There were many units within Central Operations. Operational Support: * Air Support Unit * Dog Support UnitFilm Unit* Marine Policing Unit * Mounted Branch See also * Territorial Operations, the predecessor to Central Operations References External linksCentral Operations website Defunct Metropolitan Police units {{UK-law-en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specialist Crime & Operations
Met Operations, also known as Met Ops, is one of the eight business groups which forms the Metropolitan Police Service and is responsible for providing operational support services. It was created during the 2018–19 restructuring of the service, amalgamating many of its functions from the Operations side of the Specialist Crime & Operations Directorate formed in 2012, with the Specialist Crime side of that Directorate placed under the new Frontline Policing Directorate. The group is currently led by Assistant Commissioner Pippa Mills. It consists of several branches: *Met Ops Chief Officer Team ''(MO1)'' *Met Intelligence ''(MO2)'' *Covert Policing ''(MO3)'' *Forensic Services ''(MO4)'' *Covert Governance ''(MO5)'' *Public Order Planning ''(MO6)'' *Taskforce ''(MO7)'' **Territorial Support Group ** Marine Policing Unit ** Dog Support Unit ** Mounted Branch ** Taskforce Surge Team *Roads and Transport Policing Command ''(MO8)'' *Met Detention ''(MO9)'' *Met Prosecutions ''(MO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation And Structure Of The Metropolitan Police
The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, England is organised into five main directorates, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 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. Each business groups or directorate has differing responsibilities. The commands are Frontline Policing (formerly Territorial Policing), Met Operations (formerly Specialist Crime & Operations), Specialist Operations and Professionalism. The Management Board, responsible for the strategic direction of the MPS, is composed of the senior police leadership including the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Deputy Commissioner, the five Assistant Commissioners (for Met Operations, Frontline Policing, Specialist Operations and Professionalism) and four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trident Gang Crime Command
Operation Trident, or simply Trident, is a Metropolitan Police unit originally set up in 1998 as an initiative with the police to tackle "black-on-black" gun crime following a series of shootings in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Brent. By 2008 the unit was responsible for investigating all non-fatal shootings for the Metropolitan Police, and in February 2012 the unit's remit was again expanded: the new Trident Gang Crime Command was launched, incorporating responsibility for tackling wider gang crime. In 2013 the unit gave up responsibility for investigating fatal shootings, which was taken over by the Homicide and Serious Crime Command. Trident is currently led by Detective Chief Superintendent Dean Haydon, who joined the team from the Counter Terrorism Command in 2012. The perceived importance of Trident's mission was such that it was established as a dedicated Operational Command Unit, called the Trident Operational Command Unit, within the Metropolitan Police Speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Police Units
Metropolitan may refer to: Areas and governance (secular and ecclesiastical) * Metropolitan archdiocese, the jurisdiction of a metropolitan archbishop ** Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical "mother see" * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England, United Kingdom * Metropolitan county, a type of county-level administrative division of England, United Kingdom * Metropolitan Corporation (Pakistan), a local government authority in Pakistan Businesses * Metro-Cammell, a British manufacturer of railway stock * Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company * Metropolitan Stores, a Canadian former department store chain * Metropolitan-Vickers, a British heavy electrical engineering company Colleges and universities United Kingdom * Leeds Metropolitan University, England * London Metropolitan University, England * Manch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
