In Popular Culture
- The college is frequently referenced in films and television series featuring the Metropolitan Police.
- Some of the action in the film The Lavender Hill Mob takes place at Hendon Police College.
- In the 1980s comedy-drama series A Very Peculiar Practice, Hendon Police College briefly merges with the fictional Lowlands University.
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