The 1829 Metropolitan Police Act established the Metropolitan Police in central London. They covered an area with a radius of seven miles from the centre of London and it was a radical change in ...

The story of the Met Police begins on September 29, 1829, when then-Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act. At a time when crime in London was on the rise and ...

The first Metropolitan Police station was opened on 6 October 1829 on a street called Great Scotland Yard, at the rear of 4 Whitehall Place. The Great Scotland Yard side of the building became the ...