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SO10 was the Specialist OperationsSpecialist Operations

Specialist Operations was a group of twenty specialist Metropolitan Police units which were set up in 1986 as part of Sir Ke...
 designation for the Metropolitan PoliceMetropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service is the Home Office police force responsible for Greater London, with the exception of the sq...
's Crime Operations Group.

In essence, SO10 was the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit, providing specially-trained officers and resources (such as fake identification documents for an undercover officer's "legend") for cases requiring covert policing and evidence gathering.

SO10 is still in existence under the Specialist Crime DirectorateSpecialist Crime Directorate

The Specialist Crime Directorate is one of the main branches of the London Metropolitan Police Service....
 (SCD). The undercover unit is now known as SCD11(10) Covert Operations, but is still commonly referred to as SO10.

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