The Specialist Crime Directorate (SCD) was one of the main branches of the London Metropolitan Police Service. It dealt with highly visible specialist policing services across the whole of London and provided highly visible specialist policing services across the whole of London. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley was the last head of the directorate. The Directorate led national police agency with regard to specialist crime investigations such as e-crime, sex crimes (paedophile unit) or kidnappings, hostage taking and contract killings.
The Specialist Crime Directorate has been merged with Central Operations to create Specialist Crime & Operations
It encompassed several departments:
- Air Support Unit
- Child Abuse Investigation Command
- Covert Policing
- Crime Academy
- Dog support unit
- Emergency Preparedness
- Film Unit
- Fingerprint Services
- Forensic Services
- Homicide and Serious Crime
- Human Exploitation
- Marine Policing
- Met Intelligence Bureau
- Mounted Branch
- Overseas Visitors Registration
- Rape & Serious Sexual Assault
- Serious and Organised Crime
- Specialist & Economic Crime
- Territorial Support Group
- Traffic Criminal Justice Unit
- Traffic Operational Command
- Trident Gang Crime Command
Famous quotes containing the words specialist and/or crime:
“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)