Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police

The post of Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police was created in London, England in 1842 and renamed Chief Architect and Surveyor to the Metropolitan Police in 1949.Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff, 1979, page 128 It was held by only nine people, five of whom served for over twenty years each. The force's first purpose-built station had been built at Bow Street in 1831, only two years after Sir Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Act of 1829.

List 1842 - Richard FletcherFairfax, Quills, page 123 1843–1866 - Charles Reeves 1867–1868 - Thomas Charles Sorby 1868–1881 - Frederick Henry Caiger 1881–1895 – John Butler 1895–1920 - John Dixon Butler 1920–1947 - Gilbert Mackenzie Trench 1947–1974 - John Innes Elliott 1974–1988 - Michael Louis BelchamberFairfax, Quills, page 149 1988–? - T. Lawrence

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