{"slug": "metropolitan-police", "label": "Metropolitan Police", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139213", "qid": "Q1139213", "description": "territorial police force in Greater London", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1829, 1984], "span_label": ["1829 CE", "1984 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Metropolitan Police Service"], "related": [{"slug": "november", "label": "November", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-ireland", "label": "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "robert-peel", "label": "Robert Peel", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1829, "year_label": "1829 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 19", "text": "June 19 – Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police Service in London, the first modern police force. The first officers, known by the nickname \"bobbies\", go on patrol on September 29.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371400114#April–June", "title": "1829", "revid": 1371400114, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November", "text": "November – Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as New Scotland Yard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#November", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – The first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#July–August", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – The London Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad, a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369258210#September", "title": "1920", "revid": 1369258210, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – Fighting breaks out in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group; protester Blair Peach receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#April", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was fatally shot, during a demonstration outside the Libyan embassy in London, leading to an eleven-day siege of the embassy, and the severing of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#April", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › April"}}]}