In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In response to repeated Greek requests for return of the Elgin Marbles and similar requests to other museums around the world, in 2002, over 30 of the world's leading museums — including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City — issued a joint statement declaring that " objects acquired in earlier times must be viewed in the light of different sensitivities and values reflective of that earlier era " and that " museums serve not just the citizens of one nation but the people of every nation ".

" The ballet also opened in New York City four weeks later at the Metropolitan Opera and the response was repeated, " again Chagall was the hero of the evening ".

The Fire and Rescue Department is a member of the Metropolitan Portage County Fire Protection District, along with their response partners to the south in the Village of Plover and to the north in the City of Stevens Point starting in February 2011.

In response, the bishop Charles Mackenzie, who instituted the Metropolitan Evening Classes for Young Men in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, London, with student fees at one shilling per session.

In 1913, in response to the Lockout, he, along with an ex-British officer, Jack White, founded the Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), an armed and well-trained body of labour men whose aim was to defend workers and strikers, particularly from the frequent brutality of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

After the negative response of Vasco, the big teams, Fluminense, Flamengo and Botafogo, among others, created the Metropolitan Athletic Association and prohibited Vasco to participate unless it complied with the racist demand.

In October 2011, the University made the decision to adopt a new academic strategy and to withdraw its current validation model in response to changes in higher education in Wales, including the University's merger with Swansea Metropolitan University snd the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David.

In 1967 the Minnesota Legislature created the Metropolitan Council in response to growing issues of septic tank wastewater contamination.

As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation ( in response to the " Great Stink " of 1858 ) of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the cleansing of the River Thames.

The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report, and the public ’ s response to it, were among the major factors that forced the Metropolitan Police to address its treatment of ethnic minorities.

In response, the Germans launched Case Anton and occupied the Vichy-held portion of Metropolitan France.

Another scheme was proposed by William Napier and William Hope ( VC ) in January 1862, in response to requests from the Metropolitan Board for imaginative ways to generate a profit from the large quantities of sewage which had been conveyed away from London by Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system.

This model was trialled as an emergency response / area car by the Metropolitan Police in the early 1990s.

In response to the almost 60 % poverty rate in Jewish Williamsburg, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York, partnered with Masbia in the opening of a 50-seat kosher soup kitchen on Lee Avenue in November 2009.

He did set up the Research and Planning Branch and the Metropolitan and Provincial Regional Crime Squad and centralised traffic control in response to rising private car ownership.

In response, the Reverend Charles Mackenzie, who instituted the Metropolitan Evening Classes for Young Men in Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, London, with student fees at one shilling per session.

Current usage within the Metropolitan Police Service uses the term " panda car " to refer specifically to a marked car driven by a basic driver ( i. e., one constrained to drive within normal traffic rules, and who may not use the vehicle's siren ), as opposed to an IRV —" immediate response vehicle "— which could be exactly the same vehicle but driven by a response driver ( i. e., one trained and permitted to disregard certain traffic laws and use the siren, as one would normally expect from police vehicles ).

Alongside the Mayor of London and the then Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Malthouse released ‘ Time for Action ’ on 3 November 2008 in response to escalating concerns about youth violence in London.

The Chicago Sanitary District ( now The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District ) was created by the Illinois legislature in 1889 in response to this close call.

In response to the growing concerns and the lack of hard numbers on these crimes in Indianapolis, IN, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department ( IMPD ) and the University of Indianapolis Community Research Center ( CRC ) began in 2008 a collaborative effort to collect data on metal thefts.

* Territorial Support Group, a special response unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service

The Commission was formed by the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act 1848 ( 11 & 12 Vict., c. 112 ), partly in response to public health concerns following serious outbreaks of cholera.

Romanian Police BMW 5 Series | BMW 550i response car.

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Mumbai Police created specialized, quick response teams to deal with terror threats.

* In 1954, the Thai Border Patrol Police formed the Volunteer Defense Corps ( also called the Village Scouts ) to provide law and order and emergency or natural disaster response.

On March 10, 2009, active duty U. S. Army Military Police troops from Fort Rucker were deployed to Samson, Alabama in response to a murder spree.

In response, he supplemented the army with local militia, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and special constables.

A special property tax assessment funds the Broadmoor Police Department, which was founded in 1948 after residents grew concerned of long response times from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department — most of whose deputies are based in the southern end of the county.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and in response, on April 9, 1968, Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. deployed the National Guard and the Delaware State Police to the city at the request of Mayor John Babiarz.

The town is served by its own Forest Heights Police Department, which maintains primary responsibility for the response to and prevention and investigation of the majority of all crimes within the corporate limits.

In response, St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig said, " I was very displeased when I saw the actions on the video.

The West York Borough Police Department ( WYBPD ), founded in 1917, is a full-time and full service municipal law enforcement agency that provides 24 / 7 hour patrol, emergency response and investigative functions within the confines of the Borough of West York.

* Anthony Police Department ( Primary patrol / service call response ) Anthony Police Department Web Site

* Emergency Control Centre, or Emergency Communications Center the emergency response call centre used by British Police forces

Mine operators hired gun thugs during the 1912 – 1913 strike, prompting the intervention of the Ontario Provincial Police, which had itself been formed in 1909 partly in response to lawlessness connected with the gold rush.

The song was written by Bob Marley as a positive response to the release of a cover version of Junior Murvin's " Police and Thieves " by English punk band The Clash, on their first LP.

Please see attached response from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, in relation to the freedom of information request F-2010-01784

In 1900, two distinct provincial police forces were created: the Office of Provincial Detectives of Montreal, in response to a crime wave in that city, and the Revenue Police, whose mission was to collect taxes.

Examples include solo motorcyclist with the Roads Police Unit, fraud investigation with the Economic Crime Unit, response drivers and ' level 2 ' public order ( riot ) duty.

In response, McKinney introduced a bill on November 2, 2005, that would temporarily deny federal assistance to the City of Gretna Police Department, Harry Lee's Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, and the Crescent City Connection Police Department, in the state of Louisiana.

In response to this and to her seeming endorsement of it, Ray Powell, President of the National Black Police Association, described the minister's language as " intemperate and inconsiderate ".