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.

Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. ; ;

The population was 8, 616 at the 2010 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It was previously used in Metropolitan Toronto, Ontario, to denote suburban municipalities including Scarborough, York, North York, Etobicoke prior to their conversion into cities.

In 1950, his Painting was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his artwork was one of few purchased by the museum.

In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.

In 1983 DIF I started to integrate the territory of the new city of Maracanaú, which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza ( the city's Metropolitan area ).

The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2005 the population of the City of Fort Collins was 128, 026, the population of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area was 271, 927 ( 163rd most populous MSA ), and the population of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4, 013, 055.

According to French law, the Foreign Legion was not to be used within Metropolitan France except in the case of a national invasion, and was consequently not a part of Napoleon III ’ s Imperial Army that capitulated at Sedan.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

During his senior year, he worked as a supernumerary with the Metropolitan Opera, earning 50 ¢ per appearance, and $ 1 if he was required to perform in blackface.

The outward expansion of London was slowed by the war, and the introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt.

O ' Hagan was a partner in a law firm representing Grand Metropolitan, while it was considering a tender offer for Pillsbury Co. O ' Hagan used this inside information by buying call options on Pillsbury stock, resulting in profits of over $ 4 million.

* 2008 Botham was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Sports Science by Leeds Metropolitan University.

* September 22 – The Flying Squad is formed in the London Metropolitan Police.

* March 24 – The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.

In 1966, New York State bought the railroad's controlling stock from the PRR and put it under the newly formed Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority ( renamed Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 ).

Many of the world's popular museums — from the Metropolitan in New York City to the Thyssen in Madrid or the Franz Mayer in Mexico City — have collections formed by the generous collectors that donated them to be seen by the general public.

La Paz Metropolitan area, formed by the cities of La Paz, El Alto and Viacha, make the most populous urban area of Bolivia, with a population of 2. 3 million inhabitants and surpassing the metropolitan area of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board was formed in 1919 to take control of Melbourne's cable tram network, six of the seven electric tramway companies and the last horse tram, by 1940 all cable and horse tram lines had been abandoned or converted to either electric tram or bus operation.

The MMTB, along with the metropolitan railway assets of VicRail, were absorbed into the newly formed Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ) on 1 July 1983, while the regional assets of VicRail were absorbed by the State Transit Authority ( STA ).

** Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, formed in 1900 and abolished in 1965

The eastern parishes that had formed the St Olave District instead became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.

Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic prints of Edgar Degas featured in a 1994 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the motifs of his Landscapes in the Chinese Style series are formed with simulated Benday dots and block contours, rendered in hard, vivid color, with all traces of the hand removed.

In 1875 the British-Israel Association and the Anglo-Israel Association were formed, followed by the British-Israel Conference Association in 1876, the Metropolitan Anglo-Israel Association in 1879 and The British-Israel Identity Corporation in 1880.

Tychy is also one of the founding cities of the Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia, a pan-Silesian economic and political union formed with the eventual aim of bringing the most populous Silesian areas under a single administrative body.

The recently ( 2007 ) formed Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union is the largest legally recognized urban entity in Poland with a population of 2 million.

The same year a select committee report recommended an ' inner circle ' of railway lines connecting the London railway termini, and the Metropolitan District Railway was formed the next year to build the southern portion of the line.

In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway ( commonly known as the District railway ) was formed to build and operate a railway from South Kensington to Tower Hill.

* London Metropolitan University, North Campus on the Holloway Road, formed from the merger of the University of North London and London Guildhall University in 2002.

Taking its name from the historic town of Greenwich, the London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east.

The London Borough of Southwark was formed in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, and the Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey.

The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was formed in 1900 ; in 1965, the area became part of the newly-created London Borough of Lewisham.