Ruth, Service records for the Met are held at the National Archives, in the series MEPO. Try this research guide. http://tinyurl.com/6982qz5 If your man retired from the Met after 1852 with a police pension, he may be name-indexed in TNA's online catalogue in the series MEPO 21. Some indexing and imaging of the Numerical and Alphabetical Registers in MEPO 4 is available at TNA Your Archives. This may help with finding a warrant number, which is a first step to further research http://tinyurl.com/6gvughm Finally for the Met, you might find this page useful http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/family_history.htm For the City of London Police, the service records are at LMA. Try this research guide. http://tinyurl.com/y5j9xjq (.pdf) HTH Judy London, UK -----Original Message----- From: london-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:london-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Acorn Cottage Can SKS advise where to search for records of police officers in the Camberwell area? Will they be at GLRO? Thanks Ruth