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.
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)''
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Territorial Support Group
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Marine Policing Unit
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Dog Support Unit
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Mounted Branch
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Roads and Transport Policing Command ''(MO8)''
*Met Detention ''(MO9)''
*Met Prosecutions ''(MO10)''
*Operational Support Services ''(MO11)''
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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 w ...
''(MO12)''
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Specialist Firearms Command ''(MO19)''
References
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Metropolitan Police units