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534:"Metropolitan Police Service – Specialist Operations"
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66:(SO15) in 2006. It maintained contact with the
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139:(SO13). It also investigated the sieges at
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391:. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 294.
385:Aniceto Masferrer, Clive Walker (2013).
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153:Hyde Park and Regents Park
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312:Detective Chief Inspector
212:Counter Terrorism Command
196:1999 London nail bombings
170:The attempted bombing by
64:Counter Terrorism Command
449:dropped out of the name.
346:Bowman, Timothy (2019).
319:Detective Superintendent
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149:Libyan Embassy shooting
118:undercover infiltration
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101:established the first
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283:1986: Simon Crawshaw
274:1972: Victor Gilbert
271:1966: Ferguson Smith
258:1936: Albert Canning
99:Sir William Harcourt
226:Adolphus Williamson
218:Commanding officers
56:Metropolitan Police
514:. 9 September 2005
295:1999: Roger Pearce
286:1987: Peter Phelan
280:1981: Colin Hewett
277:1977: Robert Bryan
208:attempted bombings
190:in 1994 and their
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