- 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.
- Tarique Ghaffur
Tarique Ghaffur <small>CBE QPM</small> is a high-ranking British police officer in London's Metropolitan Police Service. He is currently Assistant Commissioner-Central Operations. Born in Uganda to Pakistani parents in 1958, Ghaffur and his family emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1972 after President Idi Amin forcibly expelled most of the country's minority South Asian population.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Henri Paul
Henri Paul was the Deputy Head of Security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and the chauffeur driving at the time of the automobile accident that killed him along with Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed. Trevor Rees-Jones, Al-Fayed's bodyguard, survived (see details of the crash).
- Hugh Orde
Hugh Stephen Orde joined the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in 1977 and initially served in Central London. On promotion to Sergeant he moved to Brixton followed by further promotion to Inspector. He then took up various posts in South and South East London. As Chief Inspector he was appointed as Staff Officer to Deputy Assistant Commissioner (South West London) and then took command of the Territorial Support Group as a Superintendent.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stephen Tibble
Police Constable Stephen Andrew Tibble QPM (1953 - February 26 1975) was a police constable in the London Metropolitan Police who was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army member/Volunteer, Liam Quinn, whom Tibble was chasing through Barons Court, London. PC Tibble, who was married and had been a serving officer for only six months, was off duty when he saw a man escaping from colleagues.
- 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.
- Mary Jane Kelly
Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 - November 9, 1888) is widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London during the late summer and autumn of 1888. She was about twenty-five and in poverty at the time of her death. Reports of the time estimated her height at 5 feet and 7 inches (1.70 metres).
- 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.
- Adam
"Adam" is the name given to a young African boy whose torso was discovered in the River Thames, London on September 21, 2001. He is believed to have been between the ages of four and seven. The murder is believed to be linked to a ritual killing. Despite the use of the best forensic science in the world and ground-breaking investigative techniques, the London Metropolitan Police Service have not caught the killer.
- 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.
- Claudia Webbe
Claudia Webbe is Vice-Chairperson of New Scotland Yard's Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group after pioneering its development in the mid 1990s. Following the recent targeted murders of children in South London (February 2007), Webbe was called on to give a number of media responses and was featured throughout on BBC, BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, BBC Breakfast, ITV, Channel 4 News and Sky News amongst others.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Linda Bellos
Linda Bellos OBE (b. 1950) is a British black, Jewish, lesbian activist and former London politician.
- John Greenway
John Robert Greenway (born February 15, 1946) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Ryedale. John Greenway was born in Northwich, Cheshire and was educated locally at the Sir John Deane's Grammar School and The College of Law, London. He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, …
- Paddy Tomkins
Paddy Tomkins was appointed Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland by Royal Warrant in March 2007. He was formerly the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police, which he joined in 2002 and was succeeded by David Strang. He initially joined Sussex Police in 1979 and in 1993 transferred to the Metropolitan Police Service as a Chief Superintendent. In 1999 he was seconded to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner.
- Edmund Henderson
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB (19 April 1821–8 December 1896) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886.
- Harold Scott
Sir Harold Richard Scott, GCVO, KCB, KBE (born 1887 in Somerset, England; died 1969) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1945 to 1953.
- 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.
- Christine Nixon
Christine Nixon , Margaret Douglas and Naomi Simpson Christine Nixon Chief Commissioner,
- Edward Bradford
Colonel Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCVO, KCSI, ADC (27 July 1836-13 May 1911) was a British Indian Army officer who later served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1890 to 1903.
- 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.
- John Nott-Bower
Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower KCVO KPM OStJ (March 1892-3 October 1972) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1953 to 1958. He was the first career police officer to hold this post. Nott-Bower was the son of William Nott-Bower, then Chief Constable of Liverpool and later Commissioner of the City of London Police.
- William Hay
Captain William Hay CB (1794-1855) was the second and last junior Joint Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, one of two heads of the London Metropolitan Police. Hay served in a light dragoon regiment in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He then served on the staff of the Governor-General of Canada. In 1850, he was appointed the first Inspecting Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police.
- John Waldron
Sir John Lovegrove Waldron, KCVO (1910-1975) was Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1968 to 1972 and Chief Constable of Berkshire Constabulary from 1954 to 1958.
- Maria Wallis
Maria Wallis QPM was the Chief Constable of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary in the United Kingdom from 2002 until 26 July 2006. She served with the Metropolitan Police Service for 18 years undertaking various roles including working at the Community Relations Policy Unit at New Scotland Yard as a Chief Inspector, with responsibility for developing policies on Domestic Violence and Racial Attacks, as well as working as a Detective Superintendent in South East London.
- Frank Elliott
Frank Louis Dumbell Elliott CB (1874-26 March 1939) was an Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1914 to 1931. Elliott was the son of Sir Charles Elliott, former Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He was educated at Harrow School from 1888 and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1892, obtaining a first class degree in Classics in 1896. In 1898, he joined the Home Office.
- John Littlechild
Detective Chief Inspector John George Littlechild (21 December 1848-2 January 1923) was the first commander of the London Metropolitan Police Special Irish Branch, renamed Special Branch in 1888. Littlechild was born in Royston, Hertfordshire. By 1871, he was a Detective Sergeant. He was promoted to Detective Inspector in 1878. The Special Irish Branch was formed in 1883. It was technically under the command of Detective Chief Inspector Adolphus Williamson, …
- Douglas Labalmondière
Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas William Parish Labalmondière CB (1815-8 March 1893) was the first Assistant Commissioner (Administrative) of the London Metropolitan Police and acted as Commissioner for three months in 1868-1869. Labalmondière was descended from an aristocratic French family who had established sugar plantations in the West Indies. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, …
- Michael J. Todd
Michael J. Todd QPM (born 1957), has been Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police since 2002, having previously served as an Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police. He first served in Essex Police, which he joined in 1976.