Metropolitan Police Service Film Unit
Contacts
Does your creative material in relation to your photography, media project, TV, or feature film fall into one of these categories:
- Public safety or likely to impact on traffic
- Pseudo liveried emergency vehicles or actors in police or contemporary military uniforms
- Crime enactments viewable from a public place or third party location
- Weapons viewable/audible from a public place or third party location
- Nudity or perceived nudity viewable from a public place
- Filming while on the move* e.g. low-loader, tracking, 'A' frame
Download our flowchart that explains the process for informing us [
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Contact your Local Borough Police Filming Officer
Advance Notification
To contact a local police station events officer directly see the Borough Police contacts section where you will find the details of the department that deals with filming.
Late Notification/immediate filming taking place
Where there has been no specific contact with the MPS and you want to notify the MPS of your intention to shoot a scene listed above out of office hours please see our local Borough Police telephone contacts.
Contact your Council Borough Film Officer
To contact a Council Borough Film Officer (BFS) visit the Film London Borough finder section [external site]
Contact TfL
If you are filming on any strategic network (TfL roads) then please contact Mr Sean Smith via email.
Where you have not engaged BFS or TfL then please complete our online form. We will confirm receipt of your information to the relevant police departments. If you have already completed a Film London 'application to film in London' then please provide a copy of this information to the relevant borough police station in your email.
There is no downloadable application form (F236) for special services of police on this site. Where we agree to assist the industry an application form will be provided by the police.
If our site fails to answer your query and you think your production may require police assistance outside the criteria listed or you have a general filming related enquiry then please use the Film Unit or Intellectual Property email address below.
We aim to action enquiries within 1 working day.
If you would like to Send a message to MPS Film Unit use our online form.
Metropolitan Police Service Film Unit
PC Alan Cousins
Phone (answerphone): 020 7918 3032
Email: filmunit@met.police.uk
Filming of Metropolitan Police intellectual property
Camilla Lawrence
Phone: 020 7161 1236
Email: Intellectualproperty@met.police.uk
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