Territorial Operations
{{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Territorial Operations was a group of eighteen specialist Metropolitan Police units which were set up in 1986 as part of Sir Kenneth Newman's restructuring of the Metropolitan Police Service. The Territorial Operations units were designed to support the Metropolitan Police areas—while area-based policing was designed to decentralise the operations of New Scotland Yard, the TO units were intended to provide central operational and logistic support to Areas and divisional OCUs (Operational Command Units). TO designations The Territorial Operations groups were disbanded due to restructuring of the Metropolitan Police. The current term 'Territorial Policing' refers to the co-operation of Organisation and structure of the Metropolitan Police#Basic Command Unit (BCU), BCUs with pan-London units, many of them formerly TO units. The remaining pan-London units are now the remit of Organisation and structure of the Metropolitan Police#Met Operations, Met ...
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Kenneth Newman
Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman (15 August 1926 – 4 February 2017) was a senior British police officer. He was Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) from 1976 to 1980, and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1982 to 1987. He is best known for initiating a major reform and restructure of the Metropolitan Police during his tenure as Commissioner and for seeing the RUC replace the British Army as the dominant security force in Northern Ireland during his tenure as Chief Constable. Early life and career Newman was born on 15 August 1926 in Sussex and joined the Royal Air Force in 1942. After basic training, Newman trained to be a wireless operator at No. 1 Radio School RAF when he was nicknamed "Jankers" but he did not complete the course and remustered to become a Mechanical Transport Driver. Completing his training, Newman served for two years with the RAF Far East Air Force. Career Life in the Met On his return to England, he promptly joined the Palesti ...
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