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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cyril Richard Rescorla (May 27, 1939 - September 11, 2001), known as Rick Rescorla, was a retired United States Army officer of British birth who served with distinction in Rhodesia as a British soldier and the Vietnam War as an American officer. As the World Trade Center security chief for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley, …

Peter Power (born 1951 in the UK) is a regularly quoted authority on the subjects of crisis, emergency and business continuity management. Power joined the London Metropolitan Police in 1971 but since 1995 has run a UK based specialist organisation in the private sector. He was involved in several major events in London during his police career and in 1985 he became the primary author of the widely used Gold Silver Bronze command structure.

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.

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.

Colin Smith, CVO, CBE, QPM (born 1939) is a British Police officer. He became the first head of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department in 1983. He was appointed Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police on March 26, 1985, and was in post at the time of the Hungerford Massacre.

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.

Paul Officer was the Personal Protection Officer to the Prince of Wales from 1969 to 1981. Officer was made an MVO in 1982. He was born in 1940 and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1960. He was a station sergeant when he was first appointed to protect the Prince, and rose to be a Superintendent in 1981. He retired in 1983, after which he became Director of Civil Defence in New Zealand.

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.

Joseph Grantham (d. 1830) was the first police officer to be killed on duty in the United Kingdom. Grantham was a member of the Metropolitan Police Force which had been formally established in 1829. While on duty on June 28, 1830, he tried to intervene in a fight between two drunks in Somers Town, London. At his inquest, the jury returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide", possibly due to suspicion of the new police force.

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.

Robert Colin Holmes (born 1928 in Hertfordshire; died 24 May 1986) was an English television scriptwriter, who for over twenty-five years contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK. He is particularly remembered for his work on science fiction programmes, most notably his extensive contributions to "Doctor Who".

Chief Superintendent James Beaton, GC, CVO, (born 1943) was The Queen's Police Officer from 1983 to 1992. He received the George Cross in 1974 for protecting Princess Anne from the would-be kidnapper Ian Ball during an attack in The Mall. He also received the Director's Honor Award of the United States Secret Service in the same year. He was made an LVO in 1987 and promoted to CVO in 1992. Beaton served in the Metropolitan Police from 1962 to 1992.

Robert Grant was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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.

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.

Police Constable Keith Henry Blakelock QGM (28 June1945 - 6 October 1985) was a police constable in the London Metropolitan Police who was killed by a mob during the Broadwater Farm riot. Sunderland-born, and a father of three, PC Blakelock was a community police officer in the London Borough of Haringey. He was called to assist colleagues at the scene of wide-spread rioting on the Broadwater Farm estate, in Tottenham.

William Melville (April 25 1850 - February 1 1918) was an Irish law enforcement officer and the first chief of the British Secret Service, forerunner of MI5.

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, …

Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam was a British policeman who worked for Scotland Yard. Hannam became famous for solving the infamous Teddington Towpath Murders in 1953. In 1956 he took over the investigation of the activities of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, who worked in Eastbourne. His aristocratic air led to the press dubbing him "The Count". Despite opposition from the BMA, DPP and the Eastbourne police, …

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, …

Superintendent Colin Leslie Haywood-Trimming, LVO (2000) (MVO 1985), Senior Personal Protection Officer to Charles, Prince of Wales 1981-1999, in the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department. He came to public attention when he protected the Prince from an attack by David Kang in Sydney in 1994. He received a gallantry medal for his conduct. He was born in 1946, and was Personal Protection Officer to Princess Anne 1975-1981.

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.

Thomas Hill Dixon (20 February 1816-30 January 1880) was the first Superintendent of Convicts in Western Australia. Together with his superior, the Comptroller General Edmund Henderson, he created a reforming, humane convict regime for Western Australia. Recognition of his achievements has however been eroded by his later indictment on charges of embezzling public moneys. Thomas Dixon was born on the Isle of Man on 20 February 1816.

Norman Clemence Pilcher (born 1936) was a British police officer. He became infamous for arresting a number of celebrities during the 1960s on drug charges, such as Mick Jagger, Donovan and also two members of The Beatles, George Harrison and John Lennon. The various celebrities complained that Detective Sergeant Pilcher framed them or was only zealously carrying out raids and arrests to satisfy the tabloid newspapers.

Leonard Burt, CVO, CBE (1892 - 1983) was a British police officer, involved in several high-profile cases and investigations. In May 1938, Suffolk businessman William Murfitt was murdered by poisoning. Burt was one of a pair of detectives sent from Scotland Yard to investigate the sensational murder. The killer was never caught, although the case was solved 60 years later by investigative journalist David Williams.

Charles Frederick Field (1805 - 1874) was a British police officer with Scotland Yard and, following his retirement, a private detective. Field is perhaps best known as the basis for Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's novel "Bleak House".

Barry Albert Mannakee was a detective from the Royal Protection Squad and was assigned to guard Diana, Princess of Wales. According to the book "The Last Word" by Simone Simmons, he soon became Diana's closest confidant in the royal circle. Diana would often turn to him for comfort if she was feeling lonely or depressed and Barry was always there for her. Simmons also claims that Colin Trimming, the Prince of Wales' personal protection officer, …

Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th Earl of Rosslyn (born 31 March 1958) is a senior police officer in the London Metropolitan Police Service, in which he uses the professional name Commander Peter Loughborough (from the subsidiary title, Lord Loughborough, which he bore as heir to the earldom prior to his succession in 1977). Rosslyn was educated at Eton College and the University of Bristol. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1980.

Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson (born 1890, died 1979) was the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years between 1921 and 1945, being recalled from semi-retirement running two grocer's shops by a telegram from Churchill on 22 August 1939 reading "Meet me Croydon airport 4.30pm Wednesday." Although at that time Churchill had no official position in government, …

Edward Badham (born in 1860 in Barnes, Surrey) was a police sergeant involved in the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders, particularly those of Annie Chapman, Mary Jane Kelly and Alice McKenzie.

Neil is Group Head EMEA of DLA Piper's Regulatory and Government Affairs group. He specialises in white collar crime work in a corporate environment. One of Neil's particular areas of expertise is regulatory investigations and prosecutions undertaken by a range of UK, US and European regulators, including the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs, the Department of Trade & Industry, the Department of Justice, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading.

Commander Julian Bennett has thirty years experience as a Metropolitan Police Officer in London , England , having joined as a Police Cadet at the age of 16 in 1975. He rose through the ranks in East and North East London - including 7 years in Hackney, firstly as a Constable and also as Superintendent. He was head of the Inspectorate at New Scotland Yard before being promoted to Commander (and a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)) in November 2003.

JOHN JEFFERY 1944 – 200 4 It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of John Jeffery , Past President of Belgrave Harriers and Joint Manager of our British League Team. John Jeffery became a Belgrave Harrier in 1992, January 20th to be precise, but was part of the Belgrave scene as far back as 1963. As a 19 year-old, John came to live south of the Thames for the first time to become a Metropolitan Police officer.