- Ian Blair
Sir Ian Warwick Blair, QPM (born 19 March 1953) is Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (head of the Metropolitan Police Service). He is not related to Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, despite sharing a surname. His position is considered to be the most senior position in the police forces of the UK, and as such he is referred to frequently in the press as Britain's Top Police Officer.
- Jean Charles de Menezes
Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978-22 July 2005) was a Brazilian illegal immigrant living in the Tulse Hill area of south London. De Menezes was shot and killed at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers. Initially, police claimed incorrectly that he was wearing bulky clothing and that he had vaulted the ticket barriers running from police. The government also confirmed that he was staying in the UK illegally.
- Brian Paddick
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Leonard Paddick (born April 24, 1958 in Balham) is a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police in London. He is the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer.
- John Yates
Assistant Commissioner John Yates is one of five senior police officers who hold the rank in the Metropolitan Police, the statutory police force for Greater London excluding the City of London. Assistant Commissioner Yates came to prominence for heading the Cash for Peerages investigation.
- Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 - 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.
- Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson QPM is the Deputy Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, and as such is second-in-command. He was appointed in 2005 from his position as Chief Constable of Lancashire Constabulary. He has also served as Deputy Chief Constable in Lancashire and Assistant Chief Constable in Merseyside Police. He joined the police service in 1975.
- Cressida Dick
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick (born 1960) is a senior officer in London's Metropolitan Police. Prior to 2005 she was a largely unknown figure, but became well-known as a result of being the officer in command of the operation that led to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. In September 2006, she was promoted to the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
- Ali Dizaei
Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei (born c 1962) is a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police. An Iranian-born Muslim with dual nationality, he came to prominence after an inquiry into alleged malpractice (of which he was cleared) and has frequently spoken out in the media on a variety of issues, mainly concerned with ethnicity and religion. Dizaei's father was a deputy commissioner of police in Tehran.
- Angus MacNeil
Angus Brendan MacNeil (born July 21, 1970) is the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament for Na h-Eileanan an Iar. He was elected in the 2005 general election, defeating Calum MacDonald of the Labour Party. In March 2006, MacNeil came to widespread public attention after lodging a formal complaint with the Metropolitan Police regarding the Labour Party Cash for Peerages scandal. In April 2006, he and former "anti-sleaze" MP Martin Bell wrote to prime minister, …
- Harry Stanley
Harry Stanley (c. 1953 - 22 September 1999) was a painter and decorator shot dead, in controversial circumstances, by the police. Harry Stanley was born in Bellshill, near Glasgow, Scotland, where he lived for the first 19 years of his life. In the early 1970s Stanley moved to London in search of work and he married his childhood sweetheart, Irene. He had 3 children, and grandchildren, and lived in Hackney, East London.
- Jack McConnell
Jack Wilson McConnell (born June 30, 1960 in Irvine, North Ayrshire) is a former First Minister of Scotland, current leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency. To date he is the longest serving First Minister in the history of the Scottish Parliament. McConnell became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, later holding the positions of Finance Minister, …
- Charles Warren
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840-21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders.
- Phil Hope
Philip Ian "Phil" Hope BEd (Exon) (born April 19, 1955) is a British politician as is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Corby. He is currently a Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office. Phil Hope was born in London, the son of a Metropolitan Police commander, and was educated at the Wandsworth Comprehensive School and St Lukes College, Exeter where he was awarded a Bachelor of Education degree in 1978.
- Dee Doocey
Dee Doocey is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman. She served as a councillor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1986 to 1994. She contested the South West London constituency in the 2004 London Assembly elections, but lost to the Conservative Party Tony Arbour by 4,067 votes. However, as the fifth person on the Lib Dem's party list, she was elected as a London-wide member of the London Assembly.
- Murad Qureshi
Murad Qureshi is a British Labour Party politician. He was a councillor in the City of Westminster 1998-2006, and was elected on the Labour Party's party list to the London Assembly in the 2004 assembly elections. He is Deputy Chair of the London Assembly's Environment Committee, Member of the London Assembly's Transport Committee, and Member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, which oversees the London Fire Brigade.
- Robert Mark
Sir Robert Mark (born 13 March 1917), GBE, QPM, is an English former law enforcement official who served as Chief Constable of Leicester City Police, having been appointed as the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1972. Robert Mark was the first Commissioner to have risen through all the ranks from the lowest to the highest. As Commissioner, he forced out many corrupt police officers and subsequently authored a book about his experiences.
- John Carter
Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (1882-14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940. Carter was the son of a Captain in the Royal Engineers. He was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. Having passed out as Queen's Cadet, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant into the Indian Staff Corps on 28 July 1900.
- Edward Henry
Sir Edward Richard Henry,1st Baronet GCVO KCB CSI (26 July, 1850 - 19 February, 1931) was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police of London) from 1903 to 1918. His commission saw the introduction of police dogs to the force (a development which he regarded with good will), but he is best remembered today for his championship of the method of fingerprinting to identify criminals.
- Yvonne Fletcher
Woman Police Constable (WPC) Yvonne Joyce Fletcher (1959-17 April 1984) was a British police officer who was shot and killed in London's St James's Square during a protest outside the Libyan embassy. The shooting resulted in a police siege of the embassy which lasted for eleven days, and the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya. Her death was the third murder or manslaughter of a British policewoman on duty, only 18 months after the first.
- Blair Peach
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 - April 23 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher who became a symbol of resistance when he died as a result of police brutality during a demonstration in London, United Kingdom. At the time he was teaching at a special needs school in London. He was also known as a left wing activist and a member of the Socialist Workers' Party.
- Zahid Mubarek
Zahid Mubarek was an British Asian teenager who was brutally murdered by his cellmate on March 21, 2000, at the Feltham Young Offenders' Institution in southwest London. He was already inside Feltham when his killer, 19-year-old Robert Stewart - a known racist and psychopath - was transferred to his cell. Mubarek was a first-time prisoner and little different to other young men in a cycle of drug abuse and small-time criminality.
- Richard Mayne
Sir Richard Mayne KCB (27 November 1796 - 26 December 1868) was a barrister and the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police (1829-1868). With an incumbency of 39 years, he was also the longest-serving Commissioner in the force's history, as well as the youngest on his appointment. Mayne was born in Dublin, the son of Judge Edward Mayne.
- Winston Silcott
Winston Silcott was wrongly convicted of murder as one of the Tottenham Three who were convicted in March 1987 of the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock on the night of 6 October 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riot in north London. All three convictions were quashed on 25 November 1991 after forensic tests suggested that confessions had been fabricated. Silcott subsequently received compensation of £17,000 for his wrongful conviction.
- Frederick Abberline
Frederick George Abberline was an inspector for the London Metropolitan Police and was a prominent police figure in the investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders. Abberline began his police career in Whitechapel, transferred to Stepney for a long period, then to Westminster and finally to Scotland Yard by 1887. Following the murder of Mary Ann Nichols, Abberline was assigned to Whitechapel due to his extensive experience in the area.
- Dave Johnston
Commander Dave Johnston is a senior English police officer, currently the head of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command for the Metropolitan Police. Johnston is the Metropolitan police's head of homicide and serious crime, in which capacity he led the Damilola Taylor and the Torso in the Thames Investigations. He also advised the Suffolk police on the Ipswich Murders. Prior to joining the police force he served in the Royal Engineers from 1974 to 1979, …
- Graham Smith
Graham Smith was a Deputy Senior Personal Protection Officer to the Prince of Wales from 1981 to the 1990s. He was a Superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department and Detective for the Princess of Wales. He died in 1993.
- Mazher Mahmood
Mazher Mahmood is an undercover reporter for the British newspaper "News of the World". He is also known as the "fake sheikh" because he often poses as a sheikh in order to gain his target's trust. The "News of the World" newspaper claims that he has brought more than 100 criminals to justice.
- Kenneth Newman
Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman, GBE, QPM (born 1926 in Sussex, England) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1982 to 1987 and Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1976 to 1980.
- John May
Superintendent John May was the first commander of the Metropolitan Police A Division, which policed the Whitehall area of London. Since the divisional station house was adjacent to the offices of the Joint Commissioners, Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, May began to serve as unofficial second-in-command of the force, providing a link between the Commissioners and their men.
- James Monro
James Monro CB (1838-28 January 1920) was a lawyer who became the first Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police and also served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1888 to 1890.
- Charles Rowan
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Rowan KCB ("circa" 1782-8 May 1852) was the joint first Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police.
- Michael Fuller
Michael Fuller QPM is the Chief Constable of Kent Police and the first black Chief Constable in the United Kingdom. He began his policing career in the Metropolitan Police in 1975 as a cadet. In his time with the Metropolitan Police he served in some of the busiest and demanding areas of London, led Operation Trident and oversaw murder investigations in the Specialist Crime Directorate at Scotland Yard.
- John Blake
John Blake (b. 6 November 1948) first came to prominence in the early 1970s as a pop columnist for the "London Evening News". His work developed into a column titled "Ad Lib", an early example of a celebrity gossip column and lifestyle guide which survived the merger of the "Evening News" with the "Evening Standard". Head-hunted by "The Sun", the UK's leading tabloid daily, Blake launched 'Bizarre', …
- Sue Sanders
Sue Sanders (born 20 March 1947 in London) is, as an "out and proud" lesbian, a British LGBT rights activist who has specialized in challenging oppression in the public and voluntary sectors for over thirty years. After studying at the New College of Speech and Drama, London where she received a teaching diploma, Sue Sanders studied counselling on alcohol related problems as well as gestalt therapy and contribution training.
- David McNee
Sir David McNee, QPM (born 1925 in Glasgow, Scotland) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1977 to 1982 and Chief Constable of the City of Glasgow Police (later Strathclyde Police) from 1971-1977.
- Roy Clark
Roy Clark is a former Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner and head of Scotland Yard's anti-corruption squad. Until September 2005 he was director of investigations at the Independent Police Complaints Commission. After that he became director of criminal investigations for HM Revenue and Customs.
- Charles Pollard
Sir Charles Pollard QPM was Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 1991 to 2001. Pollard was educated at Oundle School and began his career in the police force at the age of 19 as a constable in the Metropolitan Police. He then undertook the accelerated promotions course at Bramshill Police College. On completion, he was awarded a Bramshill Scholarship to pursue a degree course of his choice and, in 1971, he was accepted by Bristol University to read Law.
- Jack Slipper
Jack Slipper (April 20 1924-August 24 2005) was a Detective Chief Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police in London. He was known as "Slipper of the Yard" (referring to Scotland Yard). He was mainly known for his role in investigating the Great train robbery in 1963. He became so involved with its aftermath that he continued to hunt down many of the escaped robbers in retirement.
- Paul Greengrass
Paul Greengrass (b. August 13, 1955 in Cheam, Surrey) is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English writer and film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge University. He first worked as a director in the 1980s, for the ITV current affairs programme "World in Action".
- John Ferguson
Major Sir John Frederick Ferguson CBE OStJ (c.1891 - 27 May 1975) was a senior British police officer. Ferguson passed out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry on 14 February 1912. He retired from the Army with the rank of Major in 1933 and joined the Metropolitan Police, being appointed Chief Constable in the Commissioner's Office on 1 November 1933.