History of the Metropolitan Police
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The history of the Metropolitan Police in London is long and complex, with many different events taking place between its inception in 1829 and the present day.
Pre-1829 London policing
Before the passing of the Metropolitan Police Act 1829, law enforcement among the general population in England was carried out by unpaid parish constables who were elected, and later appointed by the local justice of the peace. In certain circumstances, such as serious public disorder, the army would intervene to support the local authorities; yeomanry were extensively used for this purpose before police forces developed. Because this system of policing was largely unorganised and lacked a criminal investigation capability, the novelist Henry Fielding (who had been appointed a Magistrate in 1748) introduced the first detective force, known as the Bow Street Runners, in 1753. Fielding's house at 4 Bow Street had been established as a courtroom by the previous owner, in 1739.
Fielding's force was made up of eight constables who also investigated crimes handed over to them by the volunteer constables and watchmen. Runners were identified by carrying a tipstaff with the Royal Crown on it, which had a compartment inside to store official identification and documents. In 1805 the Bow Street Horse Patrol, the first form of uniformed policing seen in the capital, was established alongside the Runners, later amalgamating into the Metropolitan Police in 1837.[1] Unofficial "thief-takers" operated independently from the Bow Street Runners, being employed by fee-paying members of the public to catch criminals and present them before a magistrate.[2]
By 1798, the year the
The new police
During the late 18th and early 19th century, the
The civilian ethos also meant that the force did not routinely carry firearms, although Sir Robert Peel authorised the Commissioners to purchase fifty flintlock pocket pistols for use in exceptional circumstances, such as those which involved the use of firearms. At the time, burglary (or "house breaking" as it was then called) was a common problem for police. "House breakers" were usually armed. It was then also legal (under the Bill of Rights 1689) for members of the public who were Protestants, as most were, to own and use firearms.[10]
19th century
1829–1859
Metropolitan Police patrols took to the streets on 29 September 1829, despite resistance from certain elements of the community who saw them to be a threat to civil liberties.[11] The initial force consisted of two Commissioners, eight Superintendents, 20 Inspectors, 88 Sergeants and 895 Constables.[12] Patrolling the streets within a seven-mile (11 km) radius of Charing Cross, in order to prevent crime and pursue offenders.[13]
Between 1829 and 1830, 17 local divisions each with a central police station were established, with each division assigned a letter.[14] These divisions were:[15][16]
On 28 June 1830, Constable Joseph Grantham became the first member of the force to be killed in the line of duty, an incident described by the Coroner's Inquest as "justifiable homicide".[17] Other indications of the Constabulary's unpopularity of the time, were such nicknames as 'Raw Lobsters', 'Blue Devils' and 'Peel's Bloody Gang'. Officers were physically assaulted, others impaled, blinded, and on one occasion held down while a vehicle was driven over them.
One of the Metropolitan Police's priorities from the outset was maintaining public order, particularly the Chartist demonstrations in 1839, 1842 and 1848, a role in which they were supplemented by Special Constables, first introduced by the Special Constables Act 1831, empowering Magistrates to appoint ordinary citizens as temporary police officers in times of emergency.[18] In 1834, the Act was extended to allow citizens appointed as Specials to act outside of their Parish area.[18] They supplemented the regular Metropolitan Police in maintaining public order, particularly against the final Chartist demonstrations in 1848, when 150,000 Specials were sworn in to assist regular officers in preventing Chartists from reaching Kennington and then marching to Westminster.[18]
In 1839, the MPD was expanded to a 15-mile radius from Charing Cross, the Foot Patrol and the Horse Patrol were amalgamated with the Metropolitan Police, and the Bow Street Runners disbanded (with its personnel moved to the Metropolitan Police). 60 police officers were dispatched to Birmingham in July of that year where they were involved in the suppression of Chartist meetings leading to the Bull Ring Riots.[19] Also the City of London Police (CoLP), was founded as an independent force, something which has remained to this day. The River Police was also merged into the Metropolitan Police that year and renamed Thames Division, expanding from its origins in London's commercial docks to cover the whole section of the River Thames within the MPD - this included the stretch along the south bank of the City of London (since CoLP did not maintain its own river police) and originally stretched from Brentford to Blackwall before later being extended eastwards to the Thames-Darent confluence.[20]
The Metropolitan Police was formed without detectives since that role had previously been undertaken by the Runners, but in 1842 it formed a new investigative force named the "Detective Branch". It initially consisted of two Inspectors, six Sergeants and a number of Constables.[21] One of its first cases was the Bermondsey Horror of 1849, in which a married couple, Frederick and Marie Manning, murdered Patrick O'Connor and buried his body under the kitchen floor. After going on the run they were tracked down by Detective Sergeants Thornton and Langley and publicly hanged outside Horsemonger Gaol in Southwark.[22]
When Sir Charles Rowan died, another army officer,
1860–1899
In 1860, the Metropolitan Police also took on responsibility for the policing of the
Following the deaths of officers by firearms on the outer
In 1865 three more divisions were created: W (Clapham), X (Willesden), and Y (Highgate[d]). F Division was abolished by the late 1860s and its territory merged into E Division. From 1869 onwards the Met's Divisions were grouped as Districts, each initially headed by a District Superintendent:[e]
- No. 1 District - G, H, K, N, and Thames Divisions[f][g]
- No. 2 District - D, E, S, X, and Y Divisions[h]
- No. 3 District - A, B, C, T, and V Divisions[i][j]
- No. 4 District - L, M, P, R, and W Divisions[k]
In March 1883, the MPS formed the Special Irish Branch to combat the threat of Irish terrorism. The "Irish" sobriquet was dropped in 1888 as the department remit was extended to cover other threats, and became known simply as
At the same time, the Metropolitan Police also replaced its police truncheons. In 1886, in quelling a riot between warring working parties in Hyde Park, many truncheons were damaged or broken. Ross & Company supplied them with lignum vitae truncheons. Samples were sent off to be tested by the Royal Army Clothing Department, at a cost of 16 shillings per day. The lignum vitae truncheons were found unsuitable and so in October 1886 the Metropolitan Police purchased £900 worth of lancewood and cocuswood for new truncheons. Important criminal investigations of the period included the Whitechapel murders (1888) and the Cleveland Street scandal (1889).[28]
1886 also saw the creation of a new J (Bethnal Green[l]) and F (Paddington) Divisions.[29] On the night of 18 February 1887, PC 52206 Henry Owen became the first Metropolitan Police officer to fire a revolver while on duty, doing so after he was unable to alert the owners of premises on fire. The Metropolitan Police also continued policing demonstrations such as that by the unemployed in Trafalgar Square in 1887 which came to be known as Bloody Sunday.[30] Officers on duty during the jubilee celebrations the same year were eligible for the Queen Victoria Police Jubilee Medal, with similar police-specific medals following for the jubilee of 1897 and the coronations in 1902 and 1911.[31]
20th century
1900–1918
By 1900, the service had grown to nearly 16,000 officers, organised into 21 divisions, responsible for law enforcement within an area of nearly 1,800 km2.
Two robberies by Latvian anarchists reopened the debate over arming the Metropolitan and City police forces. The first in 1909 led to the pursuit known as the Tottenham Outrage, in which officers borrowed bystanders' guns and one officer was fatally shot by the robbers. The second in Houndsditch on 16 December 1910 led to the murder of three City of London Police constables and the Siege of Sidney Street by the Metropolitan and City police forces. In this siege the two forces were supplemented by a detachment of Scots Guards from the Tower of London, authorised by Home Secretary Winston Churchill who had come to see the siege in person.[34] The gang members were killed on 2 January 1911 and in the wake of the incident one thousand self-loading Webley & Scott pistols were purchased by the Metropolitan Police. In 1914 the Bulldogs were withdrawn from service after thirty-one years' service and returned to stores. The Specials were also reorganised in 1912, scrapping the old system of anyone being liable to be appointed, instead they had to volunteer.[18]
During World War One the
1919–1929
Female full police officers first joined the Metropolitan Police in February 1919, although the then Commissioner, Sir Nevil Macready, insisted he did not want any “vinegary spinsters” or “blighted middle-aged fanatics” in its ranks.[35] The female police officers were distinguished from their male counterparts, who had wider authority, by the prefix 'woman' before their rank, such as "Woman Police Constable" and "Woman Police Sergeant". They were headed by Sofia Stanley, who also designed the first women's police uniform, known as the Stanley uniform.[citation needed] Initial duties of female police officers included patrolling areas frequented by prostitutes, along with care and observation of female and juvenile detainees, deterring prostitution, helping prevent the deceitful practice of fortune telling, and looking after women attempting to commit suicide.[35] Female officers were allowed to go into brothels, nightclubs, and betting houses to observe and gather evidence of untoward behaviour, but at the first sign of crime being committed, they had to call in male colleagues. They were also not allowed to carry handcuffs unless instructed to by a senior officer.[36]
1921 saw the addition of a new Z (Croydon) Division, carved out of parts of W Division, but the following year the post-war budget cutbacks known as the Geddes Axe led the Met to begin phasing out its dockyard divisions in 1923 (a process finally completed in 1934) and attempt to abolish its female officers after only four years.[37] Though it lost her her job, Sofia Stanley successfully fought this attempt and instead a cadre of twenty female officers was allowed to continue as a seed-bed for future growth. In the wake of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 they were granted the power of arrest for the first time and posted to various areas of the Met, with Louise Pelling attached to Special Branch and Lilian Wyles joining the Criminal Investigation Department as a statement-taker for sexual-offence cases, the CID's first attested female officer.[38] They worked early and late shifts, each of 7.5 hours, but until 1973 only one week of night shifts in contrast to three consecutive weeks of night shifts for men.[39] A policy was introduced in 1927 requiring women to leave the Metropolitan Police if they got married.
1930s
In 1931, Marshal of the Royal Air Force The 1st Baron Trenchard was appointed as Police Commissioner.[40] Lord Trenchard served as head of the Metropolitan Police until 1935 and during his tenure he instigated several changes. These included limiting membership of the Police Federation, introducing limited terms of employment[41] and the short-lived creation of separate career paths for the lower and higher ranks akin to the military system of officer and non-commissioned career streams. Perhaps Trenchard's most well known achievement during his time as Commissioner was the establishment of the Hendon Police College which originally was the institution from which Trenchard's junior station inspectors graduated before following a career in the higher ranks.[42]
Trenchard gave the special constables their current name of the
1939–1945
When
16 Met detectives were transferred to the Army to form its new
1945–1959
The rise in criminality continued in the post-war period - by 1948 the number of recorded crimes in London had risen tenfold from the 1920s, to more than 126,000. By 1959 they had reached 160,000.[43] Having been waived during the war, the marriage bar on female officers was permanently abolished in 1946 and two years later the Police Federation, the rank-and-file staff association, opened its membership to women.[35]
On the night of 2 November 1952,
DS Fairfax, PC Norman Harrison and PC James McDonald were all awarded the
Since 1951, in common with all members of U.K. police forces, officers can receive the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal after 20 (formerly 22) years of duty.[44]
1960–1978
Before the 1970s, police forces often called for assistance from the Metropolitan Police because of their detective experience. The last case of this kind was when the now defunct
London saw many protests during the 1950s and 1960s, turning violent on more than one occasion, with police clashing with violent protesters and making newspaper headlines. The Metropolitan Police realised it needed a unit specifically trained for public order duties and in 1965 formed the
On 1 February 1971, Karpal Kaur Sandhu, born in Zanzibar but of Indian heritage, joined the Metropolitan Police and thus became the Metropolitan Police's (and Britain's) first female Asian police officer.[50] This was before India itself had female police officers (the first female police officer in India was Kiran Bedi in 1972).[50] In 1973, the separate Women's Department was fully integrated into the Metropolitan Police.[35] Female police officers did not get equal pay with male police officers until 1974.[citation needed]
Twelve officers in the Obscene Publications Branch were imprisoned for corruption in connection with bribes paid by James Humphreys (pornographer).[51]
In the Spaghetti House siege on 18 September 1975 alleged members of the Black Liberation Army attempted to commit an armed robbery at the Spaghetti House restaurant to gain publicity for their cause. However, the robbery was discovered by the Metropolitan Police, and the would-be robbers initiated a siege by taking hostages.[52] In 1976 the first Woman Chief Superintendent was appointed to take charge of a subdivision.[53] In 1977 Dee O’Donoghue became the first female traffic officer.[53]
The 1970s also saw frequent allegations of institutional racism against the Metropolitan Police, such as the case of the Mangrove Nine in 1970 and the Notting Hill Carnival disturbances on 30 August 1976, triggered by Metropolitan Police officers attempting to arrest an alleged pickpocket at the Carnival and leading to over 100 officers admitted to hospital.[54] The late 1970s also saw Operation Countryman investigate allegations of endemic corruption in the 1960s and 1970s. It concluded that there had been corruption at many levels. Only eight prosecutions were brought but several hundred officers retired or resigned as a result.
1979–1985
Teacher Blair Peach was knocked unconscious in April 1979 during a demonstration in Southall by the Anti-Nazi League against a National Front election meeting taking place in the town hall, dying the next day in hospital. Police brutality was never proven to be a contributory factor in his death, but it was claimed that he had fallen to a blow from a rubberised police radio belonging to the Met's Special Patrol Group, one of many accusations of brutality which ultimately led to its disbandment and replacement by the Territorial Support Group in 1986.[55][56] In 2010, a police report was disclosed that stated that it was likely a Metropolitan Police officer "struck the fatal blow" and attributed "grave suspicion" to one unnamed officer, who it says may also have been involved in a cover-up along with two colleagues.[57]
1979 also saw Nicola Grey became the Met's first female dog handler.[53] Prior to this, women were prohibited from being dog handlers since rules stated that an officer should have a wife who could look after a puppy while the officer went to work.[citation needed] The Met was heavily involved in negotiations during the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege, though these were terminated after six days and the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) stormed the building.[58] A 1985 reorganisation established eight Areas made up of a total of 67 Divisions and Sub-Divisions, reduced to 62 spread over five Areas in 1995.[14][59]
During the early 1980s, the Met began Operation Swamp which was implemented to cut street crime by the use of the sus law which legally allowed officers to stop people on the suspicion of wrongdoing. Tensions rose within the black community after a black youth was stabbed, leading to severe rioting on 11 April 1981.[60] Later that year a report issued by Lord Scarman stated that the Metropolitan Police were having problems regarding racial discrimination.[61]
In 1983, Metropolitan officers arrested serial killer
1986–1992
Metropolitan Police officers worked with the British Transport Police and neighbouring forces to arrest and convict John Duffy and David Mulcahy, for 18 rapes of women and young girls at or near railway stations in London and South East England and murdering three of their victims between 1982 and 1986.[65] In 1986 Met officers also secured the conviction of Kenneth Erskine for a series of attacks in Stockwell on elderly men and women, breaking into their homes and strangling them to death.[66] In March 1987 private investigator Daniel Morgan was murdered in Sydenham (south east London), in March 1987. He was said to have been close to exposing police corruption, or involved with Maltese drug dealers. Morgan's death has been the subject of several failed police inquiries, and in 2011 it was at the centre of allegations concerning the suspect conduct of journalists with the British tabloid News of the World. This unsolved murder has been described as a reminder of the culture of corruption and unaccountability within the Metropolitan Police Service[who?]. An independent enquiry in 2021 concluded that the Metropolitan Police were "institutionally corrupt" in its handling of the investigation into the murder of Daniel Morgan and that the force had placed protecting its reputation above the investigation.
Metropolitan Police officers assisted the British Transport Police during the 1987 King's Cross fire[67] and the 1988 Clapham Junction rail crash.[68]
The official title was changed from "Metropolitan Police" to "Metropolitan Police Service" as part of the "PLUS Programme" in 1989, under the then Commissioner
1993–1999
From 1993, a series of operations failed to convict the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, despite substantial evidence. The resulting MacPherson inquiry found that the Met was "institutionally racist".[72] Tensions with the Black community also led to a third Brixton riot in 1995, arising from a large protest outside Brixton police station over the death of a local man in police custody - three police officers were injured and a two-mile exclusion zone was set up around Brixton. Later reports showed that the male in custody died of heart failure, said to be brought on because of difficulties restraining him.[73]
1999 was a full year for the service, including the murder of Jill Dando, the 1999 London nail bombings,[74] the fatal shooting of Harry Stanley 100 yards from his home by Metropolitan police officers in contentious circumstances, the dropping of the prefix "Woman" from female officers' ranks and the Macpherson Report, which stated that institutional racism existed in the service.[75] In the two decades before 2010, over 50 serving MPS officers died in service, with eight being murdered or fatally injured by an assailant.[76]
1999 was also the year in which the
21st century
2000–2009
The service continued to be overseen directly by the Home Secretary until 2000, when the newly created
In an attempt to control crowds during the 2001 May Day protest, the service employed the tactic of "kettling", and were criticised for detaining bystanders for long periods of time.[81] That year, the dismembered body of a young boy believed to have been between the ages of four and seven was found floating in the River Thames, and named by police as Adam in the absence of a confirmed identity. During the investigation, a police commander and a detective chief inspector met with Nelson Mandela.[82] The case was never solved.[83] An internal report in 2002 arising from Operation Tiberius found that "Organised criminals were able to infiltrate Scotland Yard at will by bribing corrupt officers". Demonstrators protesting against the Hunting Act 2004 outside the Palace of Westminster in 2004 were involved in violent confrontations with Metropolitan Police officers.[84]
The Metropolitan Police worked to a major incident plan to provide co-ordination, control and forensic and investigative resources after the
Following high-profile controversies involving high-ranking black officers, including allegations of racism made by Tarique Ghaffur – the highest ranking Asian officer in the Met – against commissioner Ian Blair, the National Black Police Association boycotted the Met in 2008 for racial discrimination. The Met once again used the "kettling" technique to contain large numbers of demonstrators during the 2009 G20 London summit protests. A bystander named Ian Tomlinson died from internal bleeding after he was hit with a baton and pushed to the ground by an officer of the Territorial Support Group.[92] The jury at the inquest into Tomlinson's death returned a verdict of unlawful killing and the officer who pushed Tomlinson was later acquitted of manslaughter. Following a separate incident, a sergeant in the Territorial Support Group was suspended after being filmed striking a woman's face with his hand and her leg with a baton, but he was later cleared of any wrongdoing.[93]
2010–2014
The Met oversaw preparations for
Around 5,000 Metropolitan Police officers were deployed to police the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011. In advance of the event, assistant commissioner Lynne Owens said: "People who want to come to London to peacefully protest can do that but they must remember that it is a day of national celebration". Approximately one hundred people were pre-emptively arrested in advance of the wedding and were detained without charge for the duration of the wedding, with the apparent aim of suppressing protest. Other protestors were arrested on the day of the wedding; some were detained at railway stations on arrival. The Metropolitan Police said that one million people were present in London to watch the wedding procession.
The
In June 2013, the Met were exposed for sending an undercover officer to smear the friends and family of Stephen Lawrence.[108] The following year it was revealed more than 4,600 children had been strip searched by the Metropolitan Police in the preceding five years, with the youngest being ten years old. This was out of a total of 134,000 strip-searched. A charity described the number of younger children searched in this way as being "disturbing".[109] In October 2013 the Met, English Transport Police, City of London Police, and Transport for London jointly launched Project Guardian to reduce sexual harassment on public transport and increase reporting of sexual offences.[110] The following month officers from the Met's human trafficking unit arrested two suspects in Lambeth who were alleged to have enslaved three women in a house for over 30 years.[111]
In September 2014 it launched the largest investigation since the 2005 bombings and attempted bombings after the disappearance of Alice Gross.[112] That year it also launched Operation Midland after Carl Beech, then known publicly under the pseudonym "Nick", alleged that he had been the victim of a VIP paedophile ring and that he had witnessed them murder three boys decades earlier. Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald issued a statement in which he said that they believed Beech's allegations were "credible and true" but the probe was closed after 16 months when no evidence was found to corroborate the claims.[113] A report by Richard Henriques detailed numerous failings by the Met and found that those accused were victims of false allegations, prompting then-Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe to apologise to them.[114] Hogan-Howe called for the Met to change their approach to such allegations and no longer automatically believe complainants.[115] Beech was convicted of charges related to lying to the police in July 2019 and was sentenced to 18 years in jail.[115]
2015–2019
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In 2015, former Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer Peter Francis revealed that the MPS has spied on several former and serving Labour MPs including Harriet Harman, Peter Hain, Jack Straw, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Grant, Ken Livingstone, Tony Benn, Joan Ruddock and Dennis Skinner. In response, Peter Hain stated: "That the special branch had a file on me dating back 40 years ago to anti-apartheid and anti-Nazi League activist days is hardly revelatory. That these files were still active for at least 10 years while I was an MP certainly is and raises fundamental questions about parliamentary sovereignty."[116]
In 2017, the Metropolitan Police stated that they would not investigate low level crimes and crimes where finding a suspect was unlikely, though serious crimes like violent offences would still be investigated. The Metropolitan Police justified this due to recent budget cuts under the
2017 also found the Met involved in countering and investigating terror attacks in
2020–present
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On 3 March 2021,
The HMICFRS report also said "Condemnation of the Met’s actions within mere hours of the vigil – including from people in positions of responsibility – was unwarranted, showed a lack of respect for public servants facing a complex situation, and undermined public confidence in policing based on very limited evidence."
In March 2021, PC Ben Hannam was found guilty of belonging to neo-Nazi group National Action.[134] In June 2021, an independent panel inquiring into the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan released their report. The report branded the Metropolitan Police "institutionally corrupt" and personally censured its current Commissioner, Cressida Dick, for obstruction of the investigation, leading to calls for her resignation.[135]
In March 2022, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services issued a report which was critical of the Met in respect of the measures it takes to tackle corruption. The report included the comment: "Its [the Met’s] apparent tolerance of the shortcomings we describe in this report suggests a degree of indifference to the risk of corruption."[136]
Officers convicted of criminal offences
Date | Officer Responsible | Offence (legislation) | Conviction | Summary |
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Between February and March 2023 | PC Gerrard Kennedy | Stalking (Protection from Harassment Act 1997) |
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PC Gerrard Kennedy followed a woman, taking photos of her, all without her knowing. He was convicted at Northampton Crown Court.[137][138][139] |
2 December 2022 | PC Sam Grigg |
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PC Sam Grigg attacked his housemate, where he bent her over a sofa, tying her ankles together and taping over her mouth, before he then taped her wrists. This caused the victim to feel as if he was going to rape her. Asking him to untie her, PC Grigg did, however, nicked her ankle and wrist in doing so. Asking him to avoid cutting her again, PC Grigg replied: "What will you do if I do?...Who are you going to tell? I am the police." A search of his bedroom revealed cable ties, several handcuffs, bundles of rope, a gaga and ball and four silk cloths, revealing what was later described by the trial judge as PC Grigg's "obsession" with BDSM. An ex-girlfriend recounted to the court how he had mentioned his police handcuffs "had come in useful". He was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court.[140] |
13 November 2022 | PC Jonathan Marsh | Common assault (s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988) | Not yet convicted | PC Jonathan Marsh attended a report of a man making threats to kill and causing criminal damage to a shop in Atlanta Boulevard, Romford, east London. On arrival, he mistakenly arrested the man who had called 999, Rasike Attanayake, after PC Marsh pulled him to the floor, swore at him and punched him in the back of the head. The IOPC investigated the incident, where PC Marsh was charge. At City of London magistrates court, PC Marsh denied assaulting Attanayake, however, he was found guilty. He was due to be sentenced on 29 February 2024, however, there has been no news as to this occurring.[141] |
July 2022 | PC Thomas Andrews | Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) (s47 Offences against the Person Act 1847) |
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PC Thomas Andrews assaulted a woman whilst off duty, at her home in Brockley Rise in Honor Oak, causing her to suffer grazing, after he pushed her to the ground. He was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court.[142][143] |
Between 15 and 28 October 2021 | DC Francois Olwage |
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DC Francois Olwage used a chat room to speak to a profile with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl, but was in fact an undercover officer. Over two weeks, the tone of the conversation increased in sexualisation. Having arranged to meet the child in his home town of Basingstoke, DC Olwage was arrested. He was charged, appearing at Winchester Crown Court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of corruption, but not guilty to the sexual offences. He was found guilty of all offences and jailed.[144] |
July 2021 | PS Laurence Knight | Sexual assault (s3 Sexual Offences Act 2003) |
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PS Laurence Knight was in Brighton for his stag do, being visited by strippers at the AirBnB him and friends were at, before going to some bars. Whilst in the city centre, he met a woman, who PS Knight persuaded to go into the sea with him. The pair went into the sea, where PS Knight sexually assaulted her. The victim continuously asked him what he was doing, telling him to stop, but PS Knight didn't. She reported the incident to police the same day, with PS Knight attempting to contact the victim over Facebook a few days later, however, deleted the message due to being worried his fiancée would see the message. At trial, PS Knight was found not guilty of rape, but guilty of sexual assault. He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.[145][146] |
9 June 2021 | PC Nadeem Patel | Death by dangerous driving (s1 Road Traffic Act 1988) |
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PC Nadeem Patel was driving a marked police vehicle, responding to an emergency call, driving in convoy with a colleague. He was driving behind PC Gary Thomson in another marked police vehicle. As they were driving along Stockwell Road in Brixton, PC Patel reached up to 83.7mph, in a 30mph speed limit. He was driving with the vehicle's front blue lights switched off, approximately four seconds behind his colleagues vehicle. As he was driving along the road, at 23:20 BST, he struck female pedestrian, Shante Daniel-Folkes, near to a pedestrian crossing next to a shop. PC Patel had attempted to steer away from her, however, collided with her at approximately 55mph. Despite first aid, she died at the scene. PC Patel was convicted at the Old Bailey.[147][148] |
9 June 2021 | PC Gary Thomson | Carless driving (s3 Road Traffic Act 1988) |
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PC Gary Thomson was driving a marked police vehicle, responding to an emergency call, in convoy with a colleague in another marked police vehicle, PC Nadeem Patel, who was driving behind him. PC Thomson reached speeds of 79mph whilst on Stockwell Road, Brixton. As his vehicle passed a pedestrian crossing, female pedestrian Shante Daniel-Folkes, began to cross the road. However, PC Patel, attempting to steer away from her, collided with her at 55mph, causing her to die from her injuries at the scene. PC Thomson was convicted at the Old Bailey.[147][148] |
May - July 2021 | PS Syed Ali | Harassment without violence (s2 Protection from Harassment Act 1997) |
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PS Syed Ali sent nearly 500 messages, as well as images, of a sexual nature to a woman he met in 2015, when she had reported a crime. Despite asking him to stop contacting her, PS Ali continued, sending 450 texts between 13 and 23 July, before he was arrested.[149] |
Between 18 March and 21 March 2021 | PC Jamie Rayner |
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2-years-and-three-months-imprisonment | PC Jamie Rayner repeatedly assaulted his then-partner, a fellow police officer. This included pinning her down and throttling her, to the point where she struggled to breathe. During another incident, PC Rayner pinned the victim down, stamping on he stomach, where he then grabbed her phone. Repeatedly punching her in the thigh and hitting her arm, he then trapped her with the door of the bathroom as she attempted to get her phone. This caused her bruising and a bloodied lip, as well as leaving her slumped on the floor crying. His partner told colleagues about the abuse she faced and when PC Rayner found out, he stated he'd acted in self-defence and threatened to make false allegations up about her. He suggested she blame the injuries he'd caused her on "rough sex". He was on trial and sentenced at Croydon Crown Court.[150][151] |
3 March 2021 | PC Wayne Couzens |
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Whole-life order
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PC Wayne Couzens kidnapped 33-year-old |
On or before 3 February 2021 | PC Will Scott-Barrett | Sexual communication with a child (s15A Sexual Offences Act 2003) |
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PC Will Scott-Barrett was in contact from April 2020 with a 15-year-old boy using Snapchat and Discord. PC Scott-Barrett sent graphic sexual images and videos, as well as messages to the victim, whilst off duty.[158][159] |
2021 | PC Tom Phillips | Sending grossly offensive messages of an indecent, obscene or menacing character (s127 Communications Act 2003) |
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PC Tom Phillips was in a relationship with another colleague from 2017, where, in 2021, it broke down. He sent racial slurs to his ex-partner about her new boyfriend, who was also a police officer, as well as using misogynistic language. When interviewed, he denied the offences, attempting to suggest that it was his partner who had written the messages and her partner had doctored screenshots. He was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court.[160] |
4 December 2020 | PC Archit Sharma | Sexual assault (s3 Sexual Offences Act 2003) |
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PC Archit Sharma was on duty when he sexually assaulted a female colleague, causing the victim to feel 'very anxious and scared'.He was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court.[161][162] |
7 June 2020 |
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Misconduct in public office (common law) | Two-years-and-nine-months imprisonment | PC Deniz Jaffer, 48, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, were charged with misconduct for sharing "inappropriate" photographs[163] at the scene of the murders of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, causing distress to the family and general public.[164][165] In December 2021, the two officers were each sentenced to two years and nine months in jail.
The officers had taken selfies next to the sisters' dead bodies. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an inquiry into the behaviour of the police officers. Images had been shared on a WhatsApp group and a further six officers were investigated for failing to either challenge or report this.[166] The IOPC reported that: "The investigation has also uncovered further alleged misconduct breaches of the standards of professional behaviour for a small number of officers which include honesty and integrity, and equality and diversity".[164] The two officers pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office.[167] Lewis was dismissed from the police, while Jaffer had already resigned.[168]Mina Smallman, mother of Bibaa and Nicole, has since worked to raise awareness of the misconduct of the police[169] and failures in the investigation of her daughters' deaths.[170][171] |
March 2020 | PC Darren Hourigan | 3 counts of possession of indecent images (s160 Criminal Justice Act 1980) | 10-months-imprisonment, suspended for 1 year | PC Darren Hourigan, using two email addresses, accessed a portal of 3,490 videos and 295 still images indecent images. After his arrest, he told officers he had no idea about the images, before stating that he may have been hacked. He later admitted his offending. He was sentenced at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court.[172] |
2020 | PC Dean Cupit | s2A Protection from Harassment Act 1997 |
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2020 | SC Zara Idrak |
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August 2019 - November 2020 | PC Matthew Cooper | Controlling and coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship (s76 Serious Crime Act 2015) |
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PC Matthew Cooper subjected his partner to a series of manipulative and threatening incidents. This included forcing her to put her phone on loudspeaker, preventing her from contacting her friends, as well as throwing glasses and furniture and tracking her whereabouts. He also berated her for purchases in attempts to control her finances. If the victim attempted to end the relationship, PC Cooper would threaten to kill himself or self-harm with a knife. The victim joined the Metropolitan Police, where, on confiding with colleagues, she made a statement. Her victim impact statement outlined how she had lost 10kg and left her job due to stress and the prospect of bumping into PC Cooper at work. The victim eventually emigrated to Australia.[175] |
Between November 2019 and April 2021 | PC Liam Boshein | Possession of extreme pornographic images (s63 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008) | 42-weeks-imprisonment | PC Liam Boshein was found in possession of what was described as a "frankly repulsive" extreme pornographic image on his phone. The image was of two men having sex with the decapitated body of a woman. It was described as "certainly not something that the public would expect a police officer to have in his possession". Having been a trainee officer for three months, PC Boshein sent the photo to a colleague via WhatsApp. He was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court.[176][177][178] |
November 2019 | DC Mark Collins |
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DC Mark Collins thought he was speaking to a 13-year-old girl, who was in fact an undercover police officer. He sent photographs of his genitalia via Kik, as well as making sexualised comments that he mentioned should be deleted. Some of the messages appeared to have been sent when DC Collins was on duty, but this couldn't be proven 'to the criminal standard'. DC Collins was arrested at work at Bromley police station that month. He was on trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court and sentenced at the Old Bailey.[179][180] |
11 August 2019 | PC Rory Toner | Driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above prescribed limit (s5 Road Traffic Act 1988) |
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July 2019 | PC Adnan Arib | Two counts of misconduct in public office (common law) | Two-years-imprisonment | PC Adnan Arib attended the flat of a 15-year-old girl after her mother had accused her of the theft of £10. PC Arib whispered to her to answer 'no' to any questions he asked her about the allegation. Telling her not to tell anyone, PC Arib told the girl he needed to meet her after school that day, asking her to write her name, phone number and email on a piece of paper. Using an unregistered phone, he contacted her, meeting her after school. The teenager became suspicious after PC Arib asked if she had other clothing, suggested her could teach her things and suggested they went to a park further away from her home address. He also asked if she had a boyfriend and suggested he took her for a drink, which made her feel "uncomfortable". After this meeting, she informed her mother, who contacted the authorities.
PC Arib's unregistered phone was later interrogated that revealed he had recorded the contact details and subsequently contacted a 16-year-old girl, who he had previously supervised at a police station after she had gone missing. He told her he wanted to take her out and told her that she was "very pretty". He accessed a police report about her. After subsequently messaging her attempting to persuade her to meet him, she declined to do so. The incidents were investigated by the IOPC, whereby PC Arib initially denied owning the unregistered mobile that was located in his rucksack and that had been used to send and receive 47 text messages between him and the 16-year-old girl. He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.[181][182][183] |
April 2019 | PS Dean Reid | Breach of a non-molestation order (s42 Family Law Act 1996) | Unknown | PS Dean Reid breached a non-molestation order that was put in place to protect his former partner. He pleaded guilty at Colchester Magistrates' Court.[184][185][173] |
18 February 2019 | DS Benjamin McNish | Voyeurism (s67 Sexual Offences Act 2003) |
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DS Benjamin McNish had been staying in police accommodation, when he used his phone to view a female resident who was showering. Noticing the phone, the victim, "confused and shocked", left the shower immediately, grabbing a towel, and on wrenching the door open, found DS McNish stood outside. She confronted him and he was arrested at the scene. McNish later claimed at trial at Southwark Crown Court that having forgotten to shave ahead of a drinks function, he had used his phone as an "extension of my eyes" to locate his razor. He was found guilty by the jury.[186][187] |
2019 | PC Joel Borders | Five separate offences of sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network (s127 of the Communications Act 2003) | Sentenced to 12 weeks' concurrent for each of the five offences | PC Jonathon Cobban and his colleague PC Joel Borders were in a WhatsApp group chat entitled 'Bottle and Stoppers', which they shared with Wayne Couzens. Within the chat, messages were swapped by PC Borders and PC Cobban including about tasering children and people with disabilities, as well as referring to Hounslow as a 'Somali shithole'. PC Cobban wrote in a message from 5 April 2019 how he wanted to taser a cat and dog, to see which reacted better, stating that he thought "the cat will get more pissed off and the dog will shit". He added he wanted to test the same theory with children, adding "zap zap you little fuckers". The messages within the group were of a prejudicial, racist, misogynistic, ableist and homophobic nature. Both officers described their messages as "banter", stating the comments were examples of "dark humour".[188]They were found guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court, before being sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court.[189] |
2019 | PC Jonathon Cobban | Three separate offences of sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network (s127 of the Communications Act 2003) | Sentenced to 12 weeks' concurrent for each of the three offences. | PC Jonathon Cobban and his colleague PC Joel Borders were in a WhatsApp group chat entitled 'Bottle and Stoppers', which they shared with Wayne Couzens. Within the chat, messages were swapped by PC Borders and PC Cobban including about tasering children and people with disabilities, as well as referring to Hounslow as a 'Somali shithole'. PC Cobban wrote in a message from 5 April 2019 how he wanted to taser a cat and dog, to see which reacted better, stating that he thought "the cat will get more pissed off and the dog will shit". He added he wanted to test the same theory with children, adding "zap zap you little fuckers". The messages within the group were of a prejudicial, racist, misogynistic, ableist and homophobic nature. Both officers described their messages as "banter", stating the comments were examples of "dark humour".[188]They were found guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court, before being sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court.[189] |
2019 | PC Robin Ruston | Theft (s1 Theft Act 1968) | £207 court costs and victim surcharge | [173][190] |
2019 | DS John Conner | Driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above prescribed limit (s5 Road Traffic Act 1988) | Unknown | On 12 August 2019, DS John Conner pleaded guilty to drink driving at Basildon Magistrates' Court.[184] |
2019 | SC Matthew Fincham | Possession of an imitation firearm in a public place (s19 Firearms Act 1968) |
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2019 | PC Shadman Islam | Driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above prescribed limit (s5 Road Traffic Act 1988) |
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On 1 August 2019, PC Shadman Islam was convicted of drink driving at Basildon Magistrates' Court.[173] |
2019 | PC Karl Franks | Driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above prescribed limit (s5 Road Traffic Act 1988) |
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On 5 July 2019, PC Karl Franks pleaded guilty to drink driving at Bromley Magistrates' Court.[184] |
20 October 2018 | PC Julian Watkins | Assault |
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23 September 2018 | PC Ryan Higson | Assault |
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5 September 2018 | PC Hitesh Lakhani | Perverting the course of justice (common law) | 3-years-imprisonment | On 5 September 2018, PC Hitesh Lakhani was off duty and called 101 to report a child had been sexually assaulted by a council street cleaner in Uxbridge. He alleged that he had witnessed the worker luring a child into bushes, forcing her to touch him. PC Lakhani offered a picture he had of the suspect and also provided a statement. The picture was posted on Hillingdon Police's social media feed, appealing to the public to assist in his capture. However, an investigation found there were no related allegations and CCTV proved then alleged offence hadn't occurred. It emerged that PC Lakhani had had a row with the council street cleaner over hedge trimmings and decided to create a false report.[173][194] |
11 February 2018 | PC Avi Maharaj | Fraud by misrepresentation (s2 Fraud Act 2006) | 12-months- imprisonemnt | [173][195] |
2018 | PC Benjamin Zola |
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2018 - 2021 | PC Mohammed Sardar | Five counts under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 |
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PC Mohammed Sardar accessed police systems on a number of occasions, looking at police records of people he knew, including a close associate who was awaiting trial. He also checked his own vehicle after it was involved in a crash. The Metropolitan Police found out about PC Sardar's searches in June 2021. |
Between November 2017 and October 2018 | PS Okechukwu Efobi | Three charges under sections 1(1) and (3) of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 |
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December 2017 | PC Terry Malka | Outraging public decency |
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PC Terry Malka was seen masturbating in a compartment of a first-class train that was travelling between East Croydon and Horsham. He was spotted twice; once by station staff and then by a train guard. Rail staff stated that it appeared PC Malka had been drinking and when asked to show his ticket, he produced his warrant card. At Gatwick station, PC Malka was removed and arrested.
Initially, PC Malka pleaded not guilty, claiming that his actions were to do with a sleeping disorder he had, where he also suffered priapism, causing him to have an erection for long periods of time. However, when he appeared at Lewes Crown Court, he pleaded guilty. The judge stated that the chances were "close to zero" of PC Malka continuing as a police officer, however, after a disciplinary hearing, he was cleared of misconduct and returned to work. As of February 2023, it was reported that the Metropolitan Police had confirmed they were looking at PC Malka's case as part of Operation Onyx, a review into historic sex allegations against serving officers.[173][199] |
June 2017 | PC Lewis Simmons | Assault | [173][174] | |
May 2017 | PC Jonathan Blake | Failure to report an accident (s170 Road Traffic Act 1988) | [173][200] | |
6 January 2017 | PC Oliver Darby | Counts of theft (s1 Theft Act 1968) |
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2017 | PC Scott Johnson | Misconduct in public office (common law) | 2-years-imprisonment | [173][202] |
2017 | SC Munaver Master | Three counts of making indecent photographs of children (s1 Protection of Children Act 1978) |
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2014 - 2017 and 2023 | PC Cliff Mitchell |
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Not yet sentenced | PC Cliff Mitchell was a police officer in the Metropolitan Police when a number of offences occurred. However, prior to joining the police, between 2014 and 2017, he raped one victim. He was subject to an investigation in 2017, however, this led to no further action. In 2023, now a police constable (having joined the Met in 2020 and started training in August 2021), PC Mitchell attended an address of a woman, raping her at knifepoint. He then blindfolded her with his hoody, tying her hands with cable ties and forcing her into his car. The victim managed to escape, approaching a member of the public who called 999 in Hackbridge. PC Mitchell was arrested seven miles away in Putney, after an alert was put on his car. The 2017 investigation was reopened, which led to three counts of rape of a child under 13 and three counts of rape. PC Mitchell was dismissed in December 2023, prior to his conviction. He is yet to be sentenced.[204][205] |
2003 - 2005 and 2010 | PC Adam Provan |
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PC Adam Provan raped a fellow police officer on several occasions between 2003 and 2005. In 2010, he raped a 16-year-old girl, when he lied about his age and met on a blind date. In 2018, Provan was convicted after a retrial for raping the 16-year-old girl, where he was imprisoned before appealing the conviction. Later, the police officer he raped reported the incidents to police, whereby PC Provan faced a new trial, as well as a retrial for the rape of the 16-year-old girl.
In 2023, he was found guilty on all counts and sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court.[206] |
2002 - 2020 | PC David Carrick |
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36 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years plus 239 days | PC David Carrick abused and raped multiple women he met using Badoo and Tinder, often in Hertfordshire, England.[207][208] Using his job as an armed police officer to gain their trust and inflate his importance, he developed multiple abusive relationships with women.[209] He degraded his victims, including physical abuse with a belt, imprisonment in small spaces, urinating on victims and rape.[209] In some cases he controlled what his victims wore, when or what they ate, and where they slept.[209] He would sometimes ban them from eating altogether.[209]
In October 2021, another woman reported to the police that he had date raped her a year earlier, deciding to come forward in response to the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by another Met officer.[209]That same month, Carrick was arrested and suspended from police work.[207] Carrick initially pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.[210] In December 2022,[207] at the Old Bailey criminal court in Central London,[164] Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 of rape;[207] the charges relate to twelve female victims.[211] On 16 January 2023, at Southwark Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to four more charges of rape.[207]Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, reacted with a statement that he was "absolutely sickened and appalled".[212] Crown Prosecution Service Chief Prosecutor Jaswant Narwal was quoted stating "the scale of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is unlike anything I have encountered in my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service".[213] Carrick's sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court began on 6 February 2023.[214] On 7 February 2023, he subsequently received 36 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years plus 239 days, meaning he must serve that long in prison before becoming eligible for parole.[215] He will become eligible for parole on 2 May 2052.[216] |
April 1970 to September 1972 (as a PC with the Metropolitan Police) | PC Paul Lamb |
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17-and-a-half-years imprisonment | PC Paul Lamb raped a child in Islington and indecently assaulted another between April 1970 and September 1972, when he was working as a police officer for the Metropolitan Police. He then moved to East Yorkshire, where he committed further child sexual offences. He was jailed in May 2021, dying at HM Prison Hull in May 2022.[217][218] |
See also
- Bow Street Police Museum
- Crime Museum
- Metropolitan Police Museum
- History of criminal justice § Modern police
- History of law enforcement in the United Kingdom
- List of medals awarded to Metropolitan Police officers
Notes
- ^ Later known as Chelsea.
- ^ Later known as Bow.
- ^ Later known as Hammersmith.
- ^ Later Tottenham.
- Deputy Assistant Commissioner (1933–1946), and finally a Deputy Commander(1946–1968) until their abolition in 1968.
- ^ From 1886 also J Division.
- ^ A, B, C, F, T, and V Divisions by 1933.
- ^ From 1965 also Q Division.
- ^ From 1886 also F Division.
- ^ G, H, K, N, J, and Thames Divisions by 1933.
- ^ From 1921 also Z Division.
- ^ Later known as Hackney.
- ^ Also known as Brent, Harrow or Bushey.
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Further reading
- Douglas G. Browne, The Rise of Scotland Yard: A History of the Metropolitan Police (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1956).
- Clive Emsley, The English Police: A Political and Social History (London: Routledge, 1996).
- Gary Mason, The Official History of the Metropolitan Police (London: Carlton Books Ltd, 2004).
- Laurence Thompson, The Story of Scotland Yard (New York: Random House, 1954).
- Basil Thomson, The Story of Scotland Yard (London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935).