Metropolitan Police

Barrister Howard Vincent was appointed the first Director of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard , in London.

James Stansfeld presented to Parliament a successful motion that the House disapproves of the compulsory examination of women under the Contagious Diseases Acts, effectively suspending them.

The LondonMetropolitan Police paid a woman to visit female convicts.

The Metropolitan Police in London hired fourteen women, the first to be employed as female officers, female wardens, or police matrons.

A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard , ordered the massacre of inhabitants of the village of Ahiara in southern Nigeria in retaliation for the killing of another officer.

Under a Police Order, the Voluntary Women's Patrols became a section of the LondonMetropolitan Police ; they advised young girls, investigated sex offences, and did plain-clothes work.

After thirteen years as a member of the Metropolitan Police and ten as a member of the Criminal Investigation Department , Lilian Wyles became the first female Chief Inspector.

Doctor Joan Malleson recommended a patient, a pregnant fourteen-year-old girl who had been gang-raped by soldiers at Kensington Barracks , to Aleck Bourne , an eminent gynaecological surgeon, for an abortion.

Blair Peach , a London teacher, suffered a fractured skull when he was hit on the head by a police officer as he was leaving an anti-National Front demonstration at Southall. He died...

News broke of a grant of four million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a museum of Black British history, to be established in Raleigh Hall in Brixton, South London.