History of the Metropolitan Police Service of the Metropolitan Police Service and therefore the most senior Police Officer in England and Wales. Between 1990 and 2010, over 50 serving MPS officers died in service, with eight being murdered or fatally injured by an assailant. History of the Metropolitan Police Service The history of the Metropolitan Police Service is long and complex, with many different events taking place between its inception in 1829 to the present day. 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
Metropolitan Police Service the Home Office and the Mayor of London, through the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime. The post of Commissioner was first held jointly by Sir Charles Rowan and Sir Richard Mayne. Cressida Dick is the current Commissioner having been appointed in April 2017. A number of informal names and abbreviations are applied to the Metropolitan Police Service, the most common being "the Met". In colloquial London (or Cockney slang), it is sometimes referred to as the "Old Bill". The Met is also referred to as Scotland Yard after the location of its original headquarters in a road called Great