Special Patrol Group
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This article is about the London Metropolitan Police unit. For the Royal Ulster Constabulary unit, see Special Patrol Group (RUC).
The Special Patrol Group (SPG) was a unit of Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for providing a centrally based mobile capacity to combat serious public disorder, crime, and terrorism, that could not be dealt with by local divisions.[1]
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The SPG was active from 1961 to 12 January 1987. It was replaced by the Territorial Support Group (TSG), three times the size of the SPG.