Metropolitan Police Agencies
Examples of use of the term "Metropolitan Police" include:
- The Greater London Metropolitan Police Service, formerly known as the "metropolitan police force", and commonly known as the Metropolitan Police or simply the Met.
- The large municipal police force of an Indian city, which is headed by a Commissioner and may be independent of the state police, such as Mumbai Police.
- The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.
- The Dublin Metropolitan Police, now absorbed into the Garda Síochána.
- Metropolitan Police F.C., the football club of the Greater London Metropolitan Police currently members of the Isthmian League.
- The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
- The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
- The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Commonly referred to as the Metro Police, they are referred to as simply Metro.
- The St. Louis Police Department. known as the Metropolitan Police
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
- The Toronto Police Service, formerly (and still commonly) known as Metropolitan Toronto Police or simply Metro.
- The Metropolitan District Commission Police (commonly known as the Metropolitan Police), a former agency in Massachusetts that was merged with the Massachusetts State Police in 1992.
- The Metropolitan Police Force, predecessor of the New York City Police Department.
- Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police (Policía Metropolitana de Buenos Aires)
- Caracas Metropolitan Police (Policía Metropolitana de Caracas)
- Cúcuta Metropolitan Police (Policía Metropolitana de Cúcuta]]'
- Quito Metropolitan Police (Policía Metropolitana de Quito]]'
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