Metropolitan Police Service

Our mission

• Working together for a safer London

Our values

Working together with all our citizens, all our partners, all our colleagues:

• We will have pride in delivering quality policing.
  There is no greater priority
• We will build trust by listening and responding
• We will respect and support each other and work as a team
• We will learn from experience and find ways to be even better

We are one team - we all have a duty to play our part in making London safer.

The Metropolitan Police Service is famed around the world and has a unique place in the history of policing. It is by far the largest of the police services that operate in greater London (the others include the City of London Police and the British Transport Police). The Royal Parks Constabulary have now become part of the Metropolitan Police Service.

Founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, the original establishment of 1,000 officers policed a seven-mile radius from Charing Cross and a population of less than 2 million.

Today, the Metropolitan Police Service employs 30,235 officers, 11,966 police staff, 493 traffic wardens and 1392 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and, since the realignment of police boundaries in April 2000, it covers an area of 620 square miles and a population of 7.2million.

For more information please visit the Metropolitan Police Service website

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