Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police are London's officers, based at Scotland Yard in The Strand. They react to the crimes you commit in the street, but through Frederick Abberline they are also allies who want the Blighters arrested.

Type: Human

Appears in

Abberline, We PresumeAbberline, We Presume introduces Sergeant Frederick Abberline, who meets the twins in a Whitechapel alley wearing a dress and bonnet. To earn police cover you kidnap a criminal named Homer Dalton and deliver him alive to Abberline's carriage.

Found in

Scotland YardScotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police headquarters in the Strand. Several Jack the Ripper memories involving Inspector Abberline reference it.

Good to know

In-game officers carry revolvers, though real Victorian police mostly had truncheons.
Their uniforms are a lighter blue than the real near-black, so they stand out in crowds.
The Police Bribes gang upgrade (£5,000, 25 Silk) makes them ignore some of your illegal actions.
The Gone Lawing perk, for hijacking 50 police carriages, speeds up police vehicles.
Police wagons are one of the carriage types on London's streets.

Working with them

Sergeant Abberline asks the twins for help in Abberline, We Presume, and from then on you can capture Blighter targets and hand them over to the police. In the Jack the Ripper expansion, Abberline leads the hunt for the killer in 1888.

Staying out of trouble

If officers keep getting involved in your fights, Police Bribes is the gang upgrade that makes them look away.

Related enemies

Human
Blighters
The Blighters are the Templar-run gang that controls London in 1868 and the enemy you fight in almost every street, stronghold and gang war in Syndicate. Maxwell Roth built the gang for Crawford Starrick, and a Templar lieutenant runs each of the seven boroughs.