is a station of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

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.

Three of the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police were shot dead on the first day of the Rising and their Commissioner pulled them off the streets.

) The construction of freeways and underpasses by the municipal government, the implementation of reversible lanes during peak rush hour traffic flows, as well as the establishment of the Department of Metropolitan Transit Police ( PMT ) has helped traffic flow in the city ; however, the Guatemalan metropolitan area still faces a growing transportation problem.

The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.

The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

The LCC pressed for an alteration in its boundaries soon after the end of the First World War, noting that within the Metropolitan and City Police Districts there were 122 housing authorities.

London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.

In 2000 the outer boundary of the Metropolitan Police District was re-aligned to the Greater London boundary.

By the end of 1919, four Dublin Metropolitan Police and 11 RIC men had been killed.

* 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the " Battle of London Airport ".

It brought the UERL lines under the same control, and took over supervision of buses from the Metropolitan Police.

Fayed settled the dispute with a payment to his widow ; he also sued the Metropolitan Police for false arrest in 2002, but lost the case.

Mounted officer of the UK | British Metropolitan Police, the first modern police force.

The Statute of Winchester of 1285 is also cited as the primary legislation regulating the policing of the country between the Norman Conquest and the Metropolitan Police Act 1829.

This force is still in operation today as part of the Metropolitan Police and is the oldest police force in the world.

On September 29, 1829, the Metropolitan Police Act was passed by Parliament, allowing Sir Robert Peel, the then home secretary, to found the London Metropolitan Police.

Perhaps the most high-profile example of this was, in 1980 the Metropolitan Police handing control of the Iranian Embassy Siege to the Special Air Service.

* Sir Paul Stephenson, former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

Scotland Yard ( officially New Scotland Yard, though an official Scotland Yard never has existed ) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London.

It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard.

Although all of the western branches of the District and Piccadilly lines were included for the first time in 1933 with Harry Beck's first map, the portion of the Metropolitan line beyond Rickmansworth did not appear until 1938 and the eastern end of the District line did not appear on the map until the mid-1950s.

" Members of the public lodged complaints but the Metropolitan Police stated that no investigation would be launched and no charges would be brought against her, saying she " did not commit a criminal offence ".

With a mezzo-soprano voice, she had hopes of becoming an opera singer, but did not pass the audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

Harney's appearances in New York, such as at the Weber and Fields Music Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, and Tony Pastor's Music Hall, promoting ragtime music, did much to create widespread popular and commercial enthusiasm for ragtime as a new genre of American music.

While still at the conservatory, Vadiz was a finalist at the Metropolitan Opera House Eastern Region Auditions, and did concerts with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra with bass Justino Diaz, and renowned singers Ruth Fernandez, Chucho Avellanet and Nydia Caro.

On 28 March 2006, Paddick accepted a statement from the Metropolitan Police that it " did not intend to imply " a senior officer had misled the probe into the shooting and that " any misunderstanding is regretted ".

On 28 March 2006, Paddick accepted a statement from the Metropolitan Police that it " did not intend to imply " a senior officer had misled the probe into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

However, despite its status as part of the Regional Municipality, Statistics Canada did not include the town in Sudbury's Census Metropolitan Area for census purposes.

The Mobile Patrol Experiment was given authorisation to carry out duties anywhere in the Metropolitan Police District, meaning that they did not have to observe Divisions, giving rise to the name of the " Flying Squad " because the unit knew no boundaries.

However, Corelli did tour extensively with the Metropolitan Opera in 1975, singing in performances in cities throughout the United States and in Japan.

A planned protest by truck drivers in London was contained by the Metropolitan Police and did not cause disruption.

Metropolitan Toronto also had planning authority over the surrounding townships such as Vaughan, Markham, and Pickering, although these areas did not have representation on Metro Council.

The Wagnerian tenor Ben Heppner tackled the role in New York City at a 2007 Metropolitan Opera revival with mixed success ; his voice was impressively powerful but did not fit the style, critics alleged.

Caruso did suffer from a throat ailment and suffered a hemorrhage during a Metropolitan performance of L ' elisir d ' amore in Brooklyn on December 11, 1920, causing the performance to be cancelled.

As they were unarmed, the Dublin Metropolitan Police were confined to barracks and did not take the side of the British in the War of Independence as actively as did the RIC, and as such did not suffer the casualty rate of that force, although three men were killed and seven injured.

* Leeds Metropolitan Ladies hockey 1st team did the double in the 08 / 09 season by winning the Premier women's North league and the BUCS championship

However, despite its status as part of the Regional Municipality, during this era Statistics Canada did not include the town in Sudbury's Census Metropolitan Area.

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.

An agreement between the GWR and the Metropolitan Railway ( who had co-owned the Hammersmith & City with the GWR since 1867 ) came into force on 1 July 1868, although it did not become legal until the following year.

The Metropolitan Police in February 2012 did a recruitment campaign to gain around 1000 PCSO's.

While the novels mainly focus on the New York Metropolitan Area they did occasionally journey outside the US.