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Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police

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Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police was a post created in 1865 to oversee the healthcare of officers of the Metropolitan Police.

It was a renaming of the post of Superintending Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police held by John William Fisher from 1830 until 1865.[1] It was itself renamed Physician and Chief Medical Officer of the Metropolitan Police from 1926 to 1957[2] before reverting to Chief Surgeon until 1978, when it became Chief Medical Officer of the Metropolitan Police.

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  1. ^ Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979, page 108
  2. ^ Fairfax, Quills, page 118