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The Area Major Incident Pool (AMIP) is a defunct unit of
Greater London
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's
Metropolitan Police
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.
From 1985 to 2000, the Area Major Incident Pool consisted of experienced
detective
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s available to assist
divisional,
station based
CID detectives in the investigation of major crimes, such as non-domestic murders or those that crossed the boundaries of divisions.
In 1985, as part of then Commissioner's,
Kenneth Newman
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's restructuring the 67 divisions of the
Metropolitan Police District
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were divided among eight numbered geographical areas. Based at each Area headquarters were several specialist units, including AMIP and drugs squads, intended to decentralise some of the specialist units based at
New Scotland Yard
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.
During 1992 the number of areas was reduced to five, being
Central
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, North West, North East, South East and South West. In 1999 the areas were reduced to three (Central, North and South), with the AMIP teams being changed accordingly.
In 2000, as a result of the Macpherson Report which followed the death of
Stephen Lawrence
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, area policing was discontinued in favour of borough policing, forming
Borough Operational Command Units (BOCU).
Since 2000, much of AMIPs previous duties are performed by the Major Investigation Teams of the
Specialist Crime Directorate
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.
Area Major Incident Pool (AMIP)