Specialist Crime Directorate

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It deals with serious, organized and specialist crime investigations that exceed the capabilities of divisional CID officers, it is divided into commands as follows:

Homicide and Serious Crime Command is made up of a number of major investigation teams and is responsible for the investigation of Homicide and other serious crimes. MITs investigate murder, manslaughter, infanticide, attempted murder where the evidence of intent is unambiguous or there is a substantial risk to life, missing persons or abductions where there is a reason to suspect life has been taken or under threat, and other investigations identified for specialist needs.

Fingerprint Services - responsible for the collection and archiving of fingerprints made up of people currently living in the UK.

Forensic Services – responsible for providing an on-call forensic science capability, to the rest of the service.

Child Abuse Investigation Command - responsible for the investigation of crimes against juveniles, it is made up of the Pedophile Unit, the Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the Child Abuse Prevention and Partnership Unit, the Ports Safeguarding Team and Major Investigation Teams.

Serious and Organized Crime Group - is responsible for investigating serious and organized crime, life-threatening crimes, and those who inflict human misery on the people of London, organized this through fast pro-active response. The group is made up of the Central Task Force, the Projects Team, the Flying Squad, the Kidnap and Special Investigation Unit, the Hostage and Crisis Negotiations Unit and the Intelligence Support Unit.

Covert Policing - responsible for covert policing, providing specialist undercover surveillance teams to follow suspects.

Met Intelligence Bureau - responsible for providing the rest of the service with intelligence on required companies and people.

Palace of Westminster Division - responsible for patrolling the palace, conducting searches of visitors and vehicles.

The Security Command is responsible for security at Heathrow and London City Airports. Their duties include patrolling the interior and exterior of airport buildings, and the immediate surrounding area. The vast majority of officers patrolling airports are trained Firearms Officers; however, PCSOs and unarmed officers also police the airport

The Counter Terrorism Command, also known as S015, was formed by the merger of Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Branch. Their responsibilities include: bringing to justice anyone engaged in terrorism or related offences, providing a proactive and reactive response to terrorism and related offences, preventing and disrupting terrorist activity, gathering and exploiting intelligence on terrorism and extremism in London, to assist the British Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, working alongside the National Co-coordinator of Terrorist Investigations outside London.

Exercise 27. Make up the list of the Departments of the Metropolitan Police and their functions.

Unit	Function
Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD) ----------------------------------------------	--------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------

Exercise 28. Read the sentences from the text. Decide whether each sentence is true, false or not stated in the given text.

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