Charing Cross Police Station | |
Location: | Charing Cross, London, England |
Coordinates: | 51.5097°N -0.125°W |
Start Date: | 15 September 1831 |
Completion Date: | January 1834 |
Opened Date: | 10 February 1834 (as Charing Cross Hospital) |
Destruction Date: | --> |
Owner: | Metropolitan Police |
Charing Cross Police Station is a Metropolitan Police Service station in London's Charing Cross area. Its site in Agar Street was formerly the main site of Charing Cross Hospital.[1] The station comprises two individually listed Grade II listed buildings.[2] [3]
Starting in 2018, a series of investigations known collectively as Operation Hotton were carried out by the Metropolitan Police regarding activities of officers based mostly at Charing Cross Police Station.[4] These were unified into a single investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.[5] [6] Following the IOPC's findings of multiple cases of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment, the Metropolitan Police accepted the recommendations made by the IOPC.[7]
The station has two armouries for storage of police firearms and ammunition.[8]