Special Patrol Group

This article is about the London Metropolitan Police unit. For the Royal Ulster Constabulary unit, see Special Patrol Group (RUC).

The Special Patrol Group (SPG) was a unit of Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for providing a centrally based mobile capacity to combat serious public disorder, crime, and terrorism, that could not be dealt with by local divisions.[1]

The SPG was active from 1961 to 12 January 1987. It was replaced by the Territorial Support Group (TSG), three times the size of the SPG.

  1. ^ "Metropolitan Police Service". Archived from the original on 13 February 2002.