Met Operations, also known as Met Ops, is one of the four business groups which forms the

Metropolitan Police Service The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

and is responsible for providing operational support services.. It was created during the 2018-19 restructuring of the service, amalgamating many of its functions from the Operations side of the Specialist Crime & Operations Directorate formed in 2012, with the Specialist Crime side of that Directorate placed under the new

Frontline Policing The Metropolitan Police of Greater London is organised into four main directorates, each with differing responsibilities. These are Frontline Policing (formerly Territorial Policing), Met Operations (formerly Specialist Crime & Operations), Spe ...

Directorate. The group is currently led by Temporary Assistant Commissioner

Matt Twist Matt Twist is a senior British police officer, serving in the Metropolitan Police from 1996 to 2013 and 2016 to the present, with the intervening period spent in Surrey Police. It was announced in September 2022 that he would become Temporary As ...

. It consists of several branches: *Met Ops Chief Officer Team ''(MO1)'' *Met Intelligence ''(MO2)'' *Covert Policing ''(MO3)'' *Forensic Services ''(MO4)'' *Covert Governance ''(MO5)'' *Public Order Planning ''(MO6)'' *Taskforce ''(MO7)'' **

Territorial Support Group The Territorial Support Group (TSG) is a Met Operations unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which specialises in public order policing, amongst other specialist areas. In 2012 it consisted of 793 officers and 29 support staff. Th ...

** Marine Policing Unit ** Dog Support Unit ** Mounted Branch * Roads and Transport Policing Command ''(MO8)'' *Met Detention ''(MO9)'' *Met Prosecutions ''(MO10)'' *Operational Support Services ''(MO11)'' *

MetCC MetCC, also known as the Met Contact Centre, Met Command and Control or MO12, is a department of Met Operations within Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service. It is responsible for receiving emergency and non-emergency public telephony wit ...

''(MO12)'' *

Specialist Firearms Command The Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19) is the firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police Service (Greater London, England). The Command is responsible for providing a firearms-response capability, assisting the rest of the service which is not ro ...

''(MO19)''

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