| Short Title: | Metropolitan Police Act 1860 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act for the Employment of the Metropolitan Police Force in Her Majesty’s Yards and Military Stations. |
| Year: | 1860 |
| Citation: | 23 & 24 Vict. c. 135 |
| Territorial Extent: | England and Wales |
| Royal Assent: | 28 August 1860 |
| Amendments: | Metropolitan Police (Employment in Scotland) Act 1914 |
| Repealing Legislation: | Police Act 1964 |
| Status: | partially_repealed |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | yes |
| Short Title: | Metropolitan Police (Employment in Scotland) Act 1914 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to extend the Metropolitan Police Act, 1860, to Scotland. |
| Year: | 1914 |
| Citation: | 4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 44 |
| Royal Assent: | 10 August 1914 |
| Amends: | Metropolitan Police Act 1860 |
| Status: | current |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/4-5/44/enacted |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | yes |
| Uk-Leg Title: | Metropolitan Police (Employment in Scotland) Act 1914 |
| Collapsed: | yes |
The Metropolitan Police Act 1860[1] was one of the Metropolitan Police Acts, granted royal assent on 28 August 1860.
It consisted of two chapters. The first allowed the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to assign members of the Metropolitan Police to work in royal dockyards in England and Wales such as Portsmouth and for the Commissioner to issue additional "orders and regulations" to standard Metropolitan Police rules to cover these dockyard divisions. The second outlined the powers of constables in such divisions, which covered the land, rivers and waters in the whole of the relevant dockyard and within a radius of fifteen miles around it, with all the powers he would usually exercise within the Metropolitan Police District[2] The act was extended to Scotland in 1914 by the Metropolitan Police (Employment in Scotland) Act 1914.[3]
The Metropolitan Police were phased out of dockyards between 1922 and 1934, though the act itself was only repealed by Schedule 10 Part II of the Police Act 1964, except as it was applied by section 3, chapter 11 of the Special Constables Act 1923.