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's restructuring of the

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. 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 BCUs with pan-London units, many of them formerly TO units. The remaining pan-London units are now the remit of

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. Where units have been renamed or reassigned, these are listed in italics. *TO1 – General Department Services and HQ Support *TO3 – Area Support *TO4 – Public Carriage Office (''now the Transport for London Public Carriage Office'') *TO5 – Central Ticket Office (''now run by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency or local borough authorities'') *TO6 – Central Services (''now the Firearms Enquiry Team'') *TO7 – Divisional Support (''now the Charities Office and Borough Licensing Officers'') *TO9 – Crime and Divisional Policing Policy Branch *TO10 – Courts Division *TO14 – Traffic (''now CO15 –

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'') *TO18 – Public Order Training (''now CO11 –

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'') *TO20 – Public Order (''now CO11 –

'') *TO25 – Central Communications Branch (''now Command, Control, Communication and Information – C3i'') *TO26 – Air Support Unit *TO27 –

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*TO28 – Police Dog Section *TO29 – Thames Division (''now

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'') *TO31 – Community Affairs Branch (Vulnerable Groups) *TO32 – Community Affairs Branch (Partnership Branch)

TO designations

See also