Flying Squad

The Flying Squad is a branch of the Serious and Organised Crime Command within London's Metropolitan Police Service. It is also known as the Robbery Squad, Specialist Crime Directorate 7, SC&O7 and SO7. It is nicknamed The Sweeney, an abbreviation of the Cockney rhyming slang "Sweeney Todd" (rhyming "squad" with "todd").

This article is about the British police unit. For the Italian police unit, see Reparto volanti. For the documentary television series broadcast, see Flying Squad (TV series). For other uses, see The Flying Squad (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit.

The squad's purpose is to investigate robberies.

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