Metropolitan Police
territorial police force in Greater London
6 dated entries naming Metropolitan Police, drawn from 6 separate years between 1829 CE and 1984 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
Also written as Metropolitan Police Service in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.
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19th century
- 1829June 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.source
- 1890November – Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as New Scotland Yard.source
20th century
- 1901July 1 – The first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry.source
- 1920September 22 – The London Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad, a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.source
- 1979April 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.source
- 1984April 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.source